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The Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE, also known as Pre-Execution Environment; sometimes pronounced "pixie") is an environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of data storage devices or installed operating systems.

The Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE, also known as Pre-Execution Environment; sometimes pronounced "pixie") is an environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of data storage devices (like hard disks) or installed operating systems.

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Ubuntu 16.04 installer: any way to save setup info for a preseed?

Is there a way to save my setup selections from a regular CDROM install for use as a preseed or kickstart file? I'm experimenting with booting hosts from PXE to standardize Ubuntu installations and wondering if there's an easier way to get the…
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WDS boot taking a long time over site-to-site VPN connection

We have three sites and a new server colocation facility that we are in the process of bringing online. We have several WDS servers at each site. We are moving servers from the smallest site to the colocation facility. The colocation facility…
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Server 2016, Using Different Bootfiles to Deploy Company Specific Images

I have a switch with 3 VLANs. I have a WDS server (with DHCP and DNS) with 3 virtual NICs, each NIC is tied to one of those VLANs. Each VLAN corresponds to a company that we work with. I have 3 scopes setup, so that a computer plugged into a port…
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PXE network installations / Live Sessions

I was wondering is it possible to "link" more than one PXE server together? i.e. have 2 seperate physical PXE servers both configured in there own ways... but having machine A to be the primary (ip address configured in dhcp) but then having an menu…
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Apply Customized Image after PXE boot

I am pretty new to DISM/WAIK etc. I am trying to implement pxe on my virtual machines (virtualbox), if worked fine later planning to implement in our production environment. I was able to deploy PXELinnux, boot and load new windows 10 OS using the…
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How to boot a UEFI based Windows OS via a Linux PXE server

I would like to install a Windows OS on an UEFI machine via a linux PXE server. I can install Windows OS on a legacy machine by directing it to boot to memdisk and winpe iso image. I understand the memdisk is solely for legacy based machines and…
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802.1x and windows 10 domain authentication

Our site has had this problem for over a year now...(off and on). After PXE imaging a computer via network MAB authentication, the image finishes fine, but once it gets on the domain via the computer account created during the imaging, it stops…
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PXE Server Implementation Issues

I have an ESXi VM running a tftpd-hpa server on the latest version of Debian 9 for the network PXE environment. For testing purposes, I configured another VM to handle DHCP on Debian 9 using isc-dhcp-server (with next-server and bootfile…
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dhcrelay append option 66 and 67

I'm running a PXE Linux server in a VLAN. How is it possible to use [dhcrelay][1] to forward the DHCP requests to the main DHCP server and add the options for PXE with dhcrelay? I've tried something like that: dhcrelay -d -i eth0 10.0.0.42 -a -m…
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Cobbler PXE Boot [PXE-E53: No boot filename received]

My setup: VirtualBox DHCP/Cobbler VM server (CentOS 7) PXE VM Client DHCP/Cobbler server (1 device setup as NAT)…
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Boot over an Debian Router from an PXE SERVER in an other Network

i´ll need your help. I set up an Network with Debian 9.3.0. The target of this project is that i can boot Clients in the Network B. So i set up an Router with 2 NICs configured them to Network A:--------------DebianRouter:-------Network…
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PXE boot from an other Network

so i got an problem. I set up an Router with Debian9, its task is that Clients in the Network are able to boot from an PXE Server( the PXE Server is on an other Network) I heard sth. about IP-Helper RelayAgent But i didnt find any documentation for…
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Can't disable PXE on HP DL180 G6 and thus not install an OS

I bought a 4 bay version of the HP Proliant DL180 G6 with 2x Intel Xeon L5640 and 16GB of RAM. It also has 2 x 2TB SAS Drives in Raid 1 installed. Additionally I added a SSD which should later have the OS on it (the problems were there even before…
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booting debian image via PXE boot gives No common CD-ROM drive detected

I have created a custom debian image which should be autoinstall itself using preseed. When I load the image via Dell idrac virtual drive everything goes smoothly, however if I am trying to serve the image trough PXE network boot I after the…
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WDS + MDT How to avoid pxe boot loop

I am trying to automate the reimage process for our SuperMicro servers. Generally, i want to achive the situation from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/hh831764(v=ws.11) Ron…
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