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I'm trying to do the same thing. I'm following:
http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoinmining/comments/1qjnya/boot_your_miners_via_pxe_quick_step_by_step_howto/
But they're creating a blank debian distro and it's not quite working as I want it to.

What I"m trying to do is to copy the contents of the litecoin bamt image to the /miners/2/ folder by mounting the litecoin image:

Code:

mount -o loop,offset=682698240 litecoinbamt_r9_1.6.2.img /mnt/bamt

(got the offset by fdisk -l litecoinbamt_r9_1.6.2.img then 512 * start)

Code:

cp -ax /mnt/bamt/bamt/ /miners/2/

then using the settings in the tutorial to boot. But rig seems to hang upon booting.

If i just follow the tutorial i get into a command prompt but can't seem to get a desktop environment working or properly installing cgminer, that's why I just want to use the bamt settings..

Anyone have any success?

[edit]
This is what I've done, straight from the above linked tutorial:
Configure the network to have a static ip:
vim /etc/network/interfaces :

Code:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
        address  192.168.1.200
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8

Set up boot images for tftp

Code:

mkdir -p /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg
cp /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /srv/tftp/
cp /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 /srv/tftp/
cp /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 /srv/tftp/

we dont export /miners/default so if there is no mac address found in /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/ the boot will fail, this ensure that the clients doesnt get messed up
vim /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default :

Code:

        DEFAULT vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/nfs initrd=initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 nfsroot=192.168.1.200:/miners/default ip=dhcp rw

vim /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf :

Code:


allow booting;
allow bootp;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.150;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
  option routers 192.168.1.1;
  option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8;

  filename "/pxelinux.0";
}

host miner1 {
  hardware ethernet 60:a4:4c:61:55:9f;
  fixed-address 192.168.1.101;
}

host miner2 {
  hardware ethernet 60:a4:4c:61:53:ee;
  fixed-address 192.168.1.102;
}

# more miner hosts comes here

vim /etc/hosts :

Code:

192.168.1.101   miner1 # 60:a4:4c:61:55:9f
192.168.1.102   miner2 # 60:a4:4c:61:53:ee

vim /etc/exports :

Code:

/miners/1       192.168.1.101(rw,no_root_squash,async,insecure,no_subtree_check)
/miners/2       192.168.1.102(rw,no_root_squash,async,insecure,no_subtree_check)

Please note that the config file always starts with 01- then comes the MAC address

Code:

echo DEFAULT vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/nfs initrd=initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 nfsroot=192.168.1.200:/miners/1 ip=dhcp rw > /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/01-60-a4-4c-61-55-9f
echo DEFAULT vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/nfs initrd=initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 nfsroot=192.168.1.200:/miners/2 ip=dhcp rw > /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/01-60-a4-4c-61-53-ee

restart dhcp / nfs
service isc-dhcp-server restart
service nfs-kernel-server restart

we create the bootable linux into the nfs share
debootstrap --arch amd64 wheezy /miners/1/ http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ is what it says in the turotiral, i use i368 as --arch
vim /miners/1/etc/fstab :

Code:

    /proc    /proc    proc    defaults   0 0
    /sys     /sys     sysfs   defaults   0 0

echo miner1 > /miners/1/etc/hostname

chroot /miners/1/
mount /proc
passwd

apt-get install vim linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 openssh-server is what it says in the tutorial, i use linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae
now we boot miner1 from pxe and hopfully we get a prompt and we can ssh to the box from the pxe server:
ssh 192.168.1.101

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