Include Parted Magic

2011-12-14T00:22:15Z

Rhmaddox: I had to add the /fog folder to my default file to get pmagic to work

There are two methods of including the PartedMagic distro in the FOG PXE menu

PartedMagic is a great little ISO to have at hand, includes Firefox , Gparted, Clonezilla and much more

'''Method 1''' - '''Classic Way'''

Download the pmagic-pxe-X.X.zip file and extract it.

[http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads]
its half way down the page

Copy the “pmagic” folder from the extracted archive to /tftpboot/fog/
browse to /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/
*as 'root' edit the 'default' file in the above directory and add:
<pre>LABEL pmagic
LINUX pmagic/bzImage
INITRD pmagic/initramfs
APPEND edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256</pre>
now it should appear on the pxe menu and you can boot into it

cited from [http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=pxe]

'''Method 1''' - '''Alternate Way'''

If the ''Classic Way'' does not work, here is an alternate for Method 1 consists of the following changes to the above:

Follow instructions for ''Classic Way'' until you come to the part of editing the 'default' file.

When editing the 'default' file (as root), use this menu entry instead:

<pre>LABEL pmagic

kernel fog/pmagic/bzImage
append initrd=fog/pmagic/initramfs edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256
MENU LABEL Parted Magic
TEXT HELP
Parted Magic is a live disk operations tool
that can be booted over PXE!
ENDTEXT</pre>

There are variables that you can change to whatever you like:
*LABEL
*MENU LABEL
*TEXT HELP
can all be changed as-is without affecting the functionality of the example entry.

You can also modify the other lines to allow for multiple PartedMagic entries, as in the following (tested/working) example:

<pre>LABEL pmagic-i686

kernel fog/pmagic/bzImage
append initrd=fog/pmagic/initramfs edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256
MENU LABEL Parted Magic v6.6 [i686]
TEXT HELP
32-bit
ENDTEXT

LABEL pmagic-x64

kernel fog/pmagic-64/bzImage
append initrd=fog/pmagic-64/initramfs edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256
MENU LABEL Parted Magic v6.6 [x86_64]
TEXT HELP
64-bit
ENDTEXT</pre>

That example uses 'pmagic/' and 'pmagic-64/' folders in the 'fog/' directory for a 32-bit and 64-bit copy of PartedMagic, respectively.

'''Method 2''' - '''PXE: the "memdisk - boot the standard PM ISO" way'''

this boots the entire ISO over PXE.

*download the latest ISO from [http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads]
*create a folder in /tftpboot/fog/ called pmagic
*copy the ISO to this newly created pmagic folder
*copy and paste the memdisk file found in /tftpboot/fog/ to the pmagic folder
*as 'root' edit the 'default' file in the above directory and add:

<pre>LABEL pmagic
LINUX /fog/pmagic/memdisk
INITRD /fog/pmagic/pmagic-X.X.iso
APPEND iso vmalloc=256M</pre>

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