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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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Debootstrap Ubuntu over NFS leads to mknod I/O error

I'm trying to prepare an Ubuntu environment for a diskless machine that will PXE boot and mount an NFS share as it's root. I've currently got another Ubuntu machine mounting the NFS share and I'm trying to debootstrap into it, but it has trouble…
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Troubleshooting PXE Boot in CentOS

I am working on troubleshooting a PXE server that we have setup for use. It is based upon Cent OS 5.5. We installed the following components on top of a relatively vanilla install of Cent OS: tftp-server (xinetd) syslinux We do not need to run…
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Installing CentOS 5.5 from Windows 7 remotely to a new computer?

How can I remotely install CentOS 5.5 from my laptop running Windows 7 to a system with an empty hard drive. I've enabled PXE, Ethernet boot on the the new system, and I've got a tftp and dhcp server running on the Windows 7 laptop. What next? Any…
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Mount.cifs not supported during pxe install, but working after reboot. Why?

I'm having trouble adding to AD on pxe-unattended install. The problem is on mount.cifs, a script wich gives me the following error on pxe boot install, works 2 minutes later, after the reboot. Does anyone have an idea about what is happening…
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Netboot Ubuntu w/out Physical Access

We have roughly 12 servers running Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.10 that I'm planning on reformatting and converting to CentOS 5.5. We have a SpaceWalk server setup, so we have the capability to do a PXE boot and remotely install the new OS. Is there a way, in…
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PXE booting via a trunk port?

is is possible to pxe boot (a la as the first step in a cobbler install) when a system is hooked into a spanned switch port? I guess my question is can the pxe process somehow be made aware of vlan tags coming in and use one of them?
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Software to test disk drives, via PXE boot?

Is there any software out there which will allow a disk drive to be tested, which boots via PXE? I have a fully functional PXE environment which allows memtesting, installation, and drive nuking - but to test a disk I have to boot into an NFS-root…
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Managing DHCP with Cobbler and multiple NICs

I'm trying to setup Cobbler for PXE booting and I want it to also manage DHCP. The issue is I only want one of the two available NICs to manage DHCP. Is there a way to specify which NIC Cobbler will use for DHCP? Thank you.
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PXE E52 proxyDHCP offers were received. No DHCP offers were received

Have a Lenovo laptop which i'm trying to capture an image from as a test (we are moving from HP as our std laptop) and i keep getting the PXE E52 error when trying to boot from LAN. With things exactly as they are all the previous HP models are…
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PXE Booting with 2 NICs not finding DHCP server

I have two NICs in a client PC. I have a WDS server. When I boot from PXE on client computer I receive: WdsClient: An error occurred while obtaining an IP address from the DHCP server. Please check to ensure that there is an operational DHCP server…
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Oracle VM provisioning from dnsmasq

I have Oracle VM 2.2.0 and a provisioning server (dhcp/tftp/http) based on dnsmasq. A VM that it is configure too boot from the network, is receiving the IP, but it is failing to boot. The error displayed by gPXE 0.9.3+ is: No filename or root path…
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Dell PowerEdge 860 always does PXE boot

We bought a Dell PowerEdge 860 and installed Windows Server 2008 standard. So far so good. Now everytime the server reboots, it tries to PXE boot and hangs on cannot find pxe bootable, press f1 to continue or f2 to setup. Iried all the settings in…
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How to find the IP of the DHCP server - Red Hat Linux

There seems to be some other DHCP server installing my linux machine on the same network . How do I check the IP and remove the same ?
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PXE Boot ESXi 8 on Intel NUC 12

Hi I'm trying to setup a small home lab using VMWare. I'm trying to PXE boot ESXi-8 using kea for dhcp and tftp. I see my target host receiving a IP from kea but it does not seem to be picking up the ISO to begin installation. The target host is a…
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How to troubleshoot PXE boot from DD-WRT dnsmasq not sending tftp server info?

I have a MikroTik hEXs router (firmware v6.47.1) which I want to flash with OpenWRT. The OpenWRT wiki site has detailed instructions on the procedure, and it requires that one netboot the router. My problem is that I can't get the hEXs router to…
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