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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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Building a PXE/WDS infrastructure with both Windows Server 2008 and Linux PXE Server

What I want to do is the following: I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 (DC) with a running Active Directory. I added the role Windows Deployment Services and installed both Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7 and Microsoft…
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Dynamic Windows installation for different users

I am new in server administarting also I have one question for all you guys. Now, I plan to create reintallation system and I want to ask you if is posible to install specific software for each user or a user goups. All users and groups are stored…
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Ubuntu PXE boot mount wrong NFS share

This question may be simple but I couldn't figure out and was stuck here for the whole day already. Any suggestions are appreciated. I have two boxes, one as the server and other one running as the client. Server running Ubuntu 11.04, root fs on…
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capturing and deploying windows images via pxe

Are there any good tutorials on how to capture and deploy (via PXE) Windows XP images? I'm studying on this subject and I'd like to know what is needed and how to do it.
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Am I allowed to add RDC to a WinPE boot Image?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I am trying to emulate what a user has suggested here: Use WDS to provide a WinPE image (that contains a RDC client) over PXE. While I have a working PXE WDS Server with a…
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How to change the menu in DRBL boot sequence?

I have a DRBL server installed. When the PXE boot statrs, the DRBL menu has 3 options 1. DRBL Load 2. Local OS if exists 3. Memory test. The first option fires after 5 seconds, however, I would like to change it, so the default option will be the:…
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Windows PE and the Boot.wim injecting

Running Windows PE on 2008 server edition with WDS as the deploy point. Need to capture a Image but need to inject Intel® 82579LM and 82579V Gigabit Network drivers. The network driver is instead of being a '.inf' its a '.sys.' I attempt to try the…
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Ghost.exe + PXE

I have created a boot disc for clients to connect to Ghost 11. Rather than use physical media to boot clients we have loaded the boot disc onto a PXE server which clients the download and boot. Ghost.exe executes and connects to the server but the…
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Booting XenServer 5.6 from iSCSI

I would like to setup a diskless XenServer 5.6 FP 1 machine that boots from an iSCSI target. I think installation onto an iSCSI should be pretty easy: start the installer, open up a shell, use iscsiadm to connect to the iSCSI target, and have the…
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CentOS and PXE Boot

I am working on setting up a PXE boot server based upon a minimal installation of CentOS 5.6. I have installed CentOS 5.6 with the the first CD using the minimal installation method. Next, I followed the tutorial listed here to get the PXE…
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Provisioning environment(PXE) for windows xp, 7, server 2003, 2008 and RHEL 5

I am working for a small shop where we want to provision all the hosts from one single location. Right now, we use Legacy RIS on Win server 2003 to deploy hosts via PXE boot. Though this method works, but I wanted to know if the community has a…
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Problem setting up RHEL6 PXE server

I'd like to be able to boot a remote client over the network from an ISO that is also on the network. For this I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 server configured to act as a PXE server. I'm having some issues which are probably quite basic but…
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How to get windows 2008server r2 DHCP to hand out an IP to a PXE-booting client

I really need some help here, Im trying to get a client to PXE-boot using WDS from a 2008 server R2. I've set up a DHCP scope from 10.0.0.11 - 10.0.0.20 255.255.255.0 The server is handing out IPs to the client when it's booted up, but when it's…
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Easily installing various distros over a network

I'm working on some software that I'd like to test on various distributions of Linux, to be able to say that I know it works on them. The software interfaces with a hardware device over USB and Bluetooth, and so I'd prefer to use it on real…
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BAD ARCHIVE MIRROR using PXE BOOT method

i m trying to automatically install UBUNTU on a client PC by using the method of PXE BOOT method....my Objectives are below:- i m following the steps given in this link installation using PXE BOOT INSTALL 1:-the server will have a KICKSTART config…
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