flashing disk using pxe

Jul 24, 2007 1 Replies

hello all,



i've been ordered to install a linux system on a minipc called ebox3800. this machine has, among other things, 2 usb ports, and is capable to boot over network using PXE.



the main problem is that the root fs is already compiled using buildroot. so i end up having a whole disk image, called disk.img, and a network bootable machine.



How do i put together the two? I am seriously thinking of building a minimal system, capable of raw- writing some image on some device, and feed this via pxe to the minipc, along with the target image. Another solution might be doing the same thing using a usb pendrive.



wich is best? am i missing something? are there other solutions? thank you, vasilis.



I always do it with NFS rootfs. With it I can check if everything is working as expected and then I write the image to the harddisk from inside the NFS root.

Juergen

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