How do I turn a bootable usb thumb drive into a PXE bootable image

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I have a USB thumb drive containing a live boot environment.

It's actually set up like a HDD with a single ext2 partition within and boots a minimal customized version of linux.

How would I go about setting this up to boot via PXE (or iPXE)

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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If you've got a functioning PXE server, you should have no problem using memdisk with an image of the drive. I've used memdisk to boot a hybrid ISO over PXE, serving the ISO over TFTP rather than NFS.

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answered Mar 19 '12 at 21:38

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Thanks, this is the right answer. Now to get around the 32MB file size limit in freenas! – hookenz Mar 29 '12 at 03:03

How do I turn a bootable usb thumb drive into a PXE bootable image

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