Include Parted Magic

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.

[1] 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:

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

now it should appear on the pxe menu and you can boot into it

cited from [2]

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:

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

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:

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

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 [3]
• 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:

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