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I'm facing a serious issue with my Kali Linux installation after running sudo apt upgrade. Here's what's happening: After booting, I get the error: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has ...
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After starting Ubuntu 24.04 over the network, I have a problem where valid_lft, after going down to 0, causes the system to freeze. valid_lft can be checked by executing the command ip a. How can I ...
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If I understand this "issue" (systemd-networkd DHCP Server ignores SendOptions #15780), SystemD can be configured to handle network booting. However, I am unable to find more information ...
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I'm looking to create a setup where an OS image is (automatically) downloaded over the network and then booted into. The obvious way would be to write it to disk, reconfigure grub (or whatever) and ...
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I need advice if possible to load entire system into RAM. Let's imagine following situation: Booting LIVE OS from DVD and login as root lsblk shows NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 ...
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I am experiencing diskless clients losing connection to their nfsroot server within 24 hours of booting. Initially I thought it was hardware related as i simultaneously upgraded 16 blades from Centos6 ...
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Why can't I use vmlinuz and initrd from the newest release of kernel 5.11 while the default netboot image used in PXE is 5.4?
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I'm trying to network boot some Linux machines, so they mount their root filesystem over NFS. I would like to supply the path to the NFS mount via DHCP, so that all the machines can share the same ...
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I'm using RHEL 8 and I currently have the ability to install a single image the LAN. I'm trying to expand our options such that we can select from several images. I'd like to have a top level menu ...
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I have a preseed file which works perfectly in that the install goes from start to finish fully automated without prompts. However, I want to force a prompt for hostname and domain. I have tried ...
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I'm trying to set up a PXE server to deliver Linux image for end user workstation in my company. I've finally made it to set up dnsmasq and nfs-kernel-server so now I can get the images via network ...
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I have downloaded some ISO file for linux (actually from here: http://minimal.linux-bg.org/download/2018/) The I have configured it with PXE: LABEL minimallinux MENU LABEL Minimal Linux KERNEL ...
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When trying to provision a CentOS 7 system with the RedHat Satellite 6.2.9 I got the following error: ... ValueError: new value non-existent xfs filesystem is not valid as a default fs type Pane is ...
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I'm trying to setup my an initramfs image to nfs boot from a WPA wifi access point. My image is working with armbian and uboot. so far I have NFS booting over ethernet just fine. But no real path to ...
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updates: 5 (20171209) updates: 5 (20171210) mount -t nfs4 [SERVER IP]:/archlinux /mnt works. ss -ntp | grep 2049 the client establishes a connection to the server before systemd begins. NSF4 id ...
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