Hello,

I was running centOS 3.8 until now and had no problems as it came along with pxe service; so there was no extra installation involved and I was able to use the pxe install with out any hurdles. Lately I upgraded to centOS 4.4; it seems to be working fine too but the problem that I am facing now is pxe service is no longer supported with standard centOS 4.4 image, hence I am not able to make use of that server for pxe installs. I tried to get pxe service installed on 4.4 but had no luck with that.

I was wandering if there is an easier way to install pxe service on 4.4; that will indeed be a great help for me as that will allow me to use upgraded version of centOS; all your help and comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
K2

you've said nothing about what you've actually done, just that somethign didn't work. i'm not totally clear what you even mean by a pxe service... pxe is a method for a client to obtain a boot sector, there is no pxe "server" involved, that's a standard tftp service like tftpd-hpa

Chris,

Thanks for the reply and sorry for a very vague description. So here is what I am trying to do with 4.4 which I was able to do fine with 3.8:

For centOS 3.8 under System Settings/Server Settings/services you will find a service by the name pxe and as you mentioned it is use for pxe installs; here is the discription:
"A Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Server. This server will allow you to network boot other PXE based machines."

Now I mount a bootable .iso on this server; I have a small pxe_install script that I run on the server; I user "serv -path" to mount the iso; the command starts the dhcp service; so that the client machines which are network boot enabled can load the os from here vs putting a cdrom installation. I am able to do this only if I have that pxe service installed and running.

On CentOS 4.4 there is no such service by the name pxe and hence I need to install one; I tried google but had not luck.

Hope I was bit more clear vs further confusing you!

~K2

well this will not be a pxe server in the true sense, they would be wrapping a number of things to arrive at this one specific use for the things involved. to serve pxe client requests you need a dhcp server which can pass back a pxe boot server option, then a tftp server to be waiting for that connection to be established.