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-<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- version="5.0"
- xml:id="sec-booting-from-pxe">
- <title>Booting from the <quote>netboot</quote> media (PXE)</title>
-
- <para>
- Advanced users may wish to install NixOS using an existing PXE or iPXE setup.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- These instructions assume that you have an existing PXE or iPXE
- infrastructure and simply want to add the NixOS installer as another option.
- To build the necessary files from a recent version of nixpkgs, you can run:
- </para>
-
-<programlisting>
-nix-build -A netboot.x86_64-linux nixos/release.nix
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>
- This will create a <literal>result</literal> directory containing: *
- <literal>bzImage</literal> – the Linux kernel * <literal>initrd</literal>
- – the initrd file * <literal>netboot.ipxe</literal> – an example ipxe
- script demonstrating the appropriate kernel command line arguments for this
- image
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you’re using plain PXE, configure your boot loader to use the
- <literal>bzImage</literal> and <literal>initrd</literal> files and have it
- provide the same kernel command line arguments found in
- <literal>netboot.ipxe</literal>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you’re using iPXE, depending on how your HTTP/FTP/etc. server is
- configured you may be able to use <literal>netboot.ipxe</literal> unmodified,
- or you may need to update the paths to the files to match your server’s
- directory layout
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In the future we may begin making these files available as build products
- from hydra at which point we will update this documentation with instructions
- on how to obtain them either for placing on a dedicated TFTP server or to
- boot them directly over the internet.
- </para>
-</section>