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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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DRBL without modifying the DHCP: Possible?

Following up this question I'd like to ask: I use the company's network, but I have no access to the DHCP. I'd like to set up a DRBL server to be able to (re-)install a Linux image any time I want to. As far as I understand, the client starts in PXE…
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Adding Logic to DHCP Relay Agent

In our environment we have 3 DHCP Servers used for PXE booting. 1 - FreeBSD PXE 1 - Linux PXE 1 - Disked Imaging (clonezilla-like device) Each device requesting DHCP is on a separate subnet from the DHCP servers. But the DHCP servers are all on…
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pxelinux from existing system?

I have setup a pxe server with tftp, it works using a debian installer. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478 Now I don't want an installer but a system, that already exists (on usb). How can I boot that USB image and especially create…
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Imaging Process for Multiple Hardware configurations

currently we use a PXE environment to deploy an automated imaging process to PC's for windows 7. We are using an unattended installation with an answer file. This answer file tells the windows installation to look to out DFS\win7x64\drivers folder…
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Creating a local partition with iPXE

Is it possible to create a local partition from an ISO or a similar filetype either within iPXE itself, or with the help of another network boot program? I know PXE is usually used for "diskless booting", but I want to boot certain images (ISOs in…
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Server changes network port being used between PXE boot and the booted OS

Whenever I PXE boot a CentOS 6.5 server, I have some grief with the server using different network ports between installation and the booted operating system. I've seen this with multiple servers now. The behavior is as follows: I plug a network…
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Acronis True Image EE Server taking over network PXE booting?

I have about 5 servers that I run Acronis True Image EE server on for image backups on a company network. For a few weeks now, I've received reports of company desktop end users booting up their PC's and getting the Acronis recovery boot up screen.…
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Unable to mount the file system from server to client while booting through network

I want a client which loads kernel and file system from the server through network. Till now, On server side, i changed the settings in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf to get an ip-address to the client. After that i executed service isc-dhcp-server restart…
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VFS: Cannot open root device “nfs” or unknown-block(0,255)

I am trying to setup a diskless client which will mount over nfs to the server. When I try to boot the client I get the following error message: VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(0,255) Please append a correct "root=" boot option…
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Hosting Thin Clients on RHEL 5.5 / Cent OS 5.5

I have DHCP, TFTP in place which lets users install Cent OS 5.5 when they boot from network from there machines. I want that they should be able to boot Cent OS right away and log into there accounts. What should be I doing for that? I need to do…
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DHCP over PXE fails, but in the OS it works - with configured (R)STP

I'm trying to PXE-boot desktop-machines to install a new OS over the network, but it isn't picking up an IP address via DHCP during boot. When an OS is already booted on the machine, it is working fine. In the past i had some issues with this,…
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Private DHCP through a switch using two eth interfaces?

Right now, I have an Scientific Linux blade connected to the internet on eth3, and connected to a 48 port Cisco switch on eth2. This Cisco switch is connected to the eth2 of 24 blank blades (which are not connected to the internet). I want to be…
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Trying to restore images via clonezilla

I'm trying to restore an image to a computer on a local area network. I setup drbl via the drblsrv -i and drblpush -i commands, and pretty much left all those options to default (except for number of clients to choose). For one, the whole boot…
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Network boot from HP DL380 G7 using PCI quad port Intel NIC

I have a HP DL380 G7 server with a quad intel expansion card in slot 3. I can't seem to find anywhere in the iLO/BIOS to tell it to boot from one of these expansion interfaces - is this even possible? We can turn on the on-board NIC's but our base…
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how to restore ubuntu image with iPXE

I would like to create a backup of one of my Ubuntu systems. Put that backup file/image on one of my web servers and use iPXE or gPXE to restore it onto multiple servers. I'm assuming that I need a specialized application or distro that can be…
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