PXE Problems with NAS 1000

A good friend of mine gave me a NAS 1000 so that I could try a few things with it. In particular, I wanted to try PXE and diskless solutions with the installation files or disk data on the NAS server.

First I had some troubles starting the atftpd daemon because of user and group information which did not work. I should have checked the messages information right away... duh!!! It would have saved me a lot to time.

But then as I tried getting the data from my linux box using the fedora tftp client, it did not work. Well actually I am still not sure why it is not. Some routing errors obviously:

Jan 1 13:36:21 icybox daemon.info atftpd[1951]: Server thread exiting
Jan 1 13:36:26 icybox daemon.notice atftpd[1952]: Fetching from 192.168.0.104 to ess

Using Busybox for serving linux distributtions

I want to use a busybox in order to test the kernel through a PXE installation as well as not requiring the hard disk of my machine which should cut some part of the noise. For this I would install tftp on the busybox... Though it might also work with an NFS or a samba technique... I should check that.