Go to the directory where the script is located:

cd /home/tftpboot/bin

 

Execute the medial loading script

perl loadlinux.pl

 

Select the Linux distribution to extract:

Choose a distribution category (by letter) from the following list:

  a Asianux

  c CentOS

  d Debian

  f Fedora

  n Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

  o OpenSUSE

  r Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  u Ubuntu

Make a selection, press Enter for all, or type 'exit': u

 

 

In the example below, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx amd64 (same as x86-64 or 64-bit) was selected:

Choose a distribution (by number) from the following list:

 79. Ubuntu 8.04.1 i386 LTS Desktop and Server (DVD)

 80. Ubuntu 8.04.1 x86_64 LTS Desktop and Server (DVD)

 81. Ubuntu 8.10 i386 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 82. Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 83. Ubuntu 9.04 i386 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 84. Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 85. Ubuntu 9.10 i386 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 86. Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 87. Ubuntu 10.04 i386 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 88. Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 Desktop and Server (DVD)

Please make a selection, or type 'back' to return to categories:88

 

Processing Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 Desktop and Server (DVD)

 

 

ISOs available in /home/tftpboot/ISOs/linux:

1 CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso

2 Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso

3 rhel-server-5.5-x86_64-dvd.iso

4 SLES-11.0-DVD-x86_64.iso

5 ubuntu-10.04.2-dvd-amd64.iso

6 ubuntu-10.04.2-dvd-i386.iso

 

... for: Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 Desktop and Server (DVD)

Select ISO file number, or type 'exit':

5

 

Allow the ISO extraction operation to complete

The loadlinux.pl script provides visual feedback, and the operation will take several minutes to complete. Attempting to abort the extraction operation will corrupt files. If this happens, delete the contents of the directory for the distro located in /home/tftpboot/pub/distro_name/disc1 (or /CD1) and run loadlinux.pl again.

 

Note that all ISO-management scripts (including loadlinux.pl) are very resource-intensive, so expect reduced Provisioner PXE Server performance when running the script.

Select another Linux distribution ISO to extract, or exit the program