/esxiso2pxe
Created Mar 17, 2014
Shell script that automates the process of extracting and modifying contents of ESXi ISO for install via PXE boot. See http://www.vcritical.com/2014/03/automatically-prepare-an-esxi-iso-image-for-pxe-booting/
| #!/bin/bash | |
| # esxiso2pxe - quickly extract contents of ESXi ISO image for use on a PXE server | |
| # 17Mar2014 - egray | |
| if [ $# != 3 ]; then | |
| echo "Usage: $0 <tftpboot dir> <new dir name> <ESXi ISO file>" >&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| tftpbootdir=$1 | |
| newdir=$2 | |
| newiso=$3 | |
| tmpesxi=`mktemp -d` | |
| if [ ! -d $tftpbootdir ]; then echo "Error: $tftpbootdir not found." ; exit 1 ; fi | |
| if [ -d $tftpbootdir/$newdir ]; then echo "Error: $tftpbootdir/$newdir already exists!" ; exit 1 ; fi | |
| if [ ! -r $newiso ]; then echo "Error: $newiso not found or not readable!" ; exit 1 ; fi | |
| mkdir -v $tftpbootdir/$newdir | |
| mount -o loop $newiso $tmpesxi/ | |
| rsync -av $tmpesxi/ $tftpbootdir/$newdir/ | |
| sync && umount $tmpesxi && rmdir -v $tmpesxi | |
| chmod +w $tftpbootdir/$newdir/* | |
| sed -e "s#/##g" -e "3s#^#prefix=/$newdir/\n#" -i.bak $tftpbootdir/$newdir/boot.cfg | |
| echo "Use the following for PXE menu:" | |
| cat <<HERE | tee -a $tftpbootdir/esxi-submenu | |
| LABEL $newdir | |
| KERNEL /$newdir/mboot.c32 | |
| APPEND -c /$newdir/boot.cfg | |
| MENU LABEL ESXi $newdir - `basename $newiso` `date +%D` | |
| HERE |
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