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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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How to change the hostname at the end of pxe unattended installation on Debian

I just installed a pxe server, and i'm installing debian with pxe . completely unattended with preseeding. Now, all my installations come with the same hostname, how I can change the hostname to something different? Thanks.
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AOE windows Server/Target and Client/Initiator for Windows7/2012 or later

I've been using iSCSI for virtual SAN implementations... I've already used in the past a diskless-boot system based on AOE (32 bits)... In my case AOE has some advantages over iSCSI for small LAN implementations (no routing needed, AOE traffic is…
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Separate Servers for TFTP and DHCP for PXE Boot

This seems like it should be simple, but I can't find any actual information: Is it possible to have two separate servers, one running dnsmasq doing DHCP while the TFTP (or HTTP) server is running on a separate machine?
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802.1q PXE boot

I've been using CrucibleWDS for the past year to image machines in my environment. My dhcpd.conf file lists the PXE boot information for clients attached to the particular network I use for imaging. For efficiency's sake I'd like to merge that…
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Changing UEFI boot order from Windows

I can't get Windows to change the UEFI boot order to PXE boot first from within Windows. I'm trying to automate the system so that it PXE boots every time, so I can control the boot option. I've tried bcdedit: bcdedit /set {fwbootmgr} DEFAULT
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Can a PXE+DHCP server exist on one network and boot machines on another?

I have a PXE+DHCP server creaed using syslinux and already running on a private network segment (198.19.99.xxx).. I want to know if this PXE+DHCP server can be configured to boot machines over another network segment (172.16.87.xxx)? If the two…
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How do I use StandAlone on WDS without a Domain?

How do I use StandAlone on WDS without a Domain? The Client asks for a Domain Login when I boot to PXE. My server is running in StandAlone mode which I though would bypass this requirement. I've read tutorials, but they require a lot of wim editing,…
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SCCM 2012 R2 - unknown PC boot over PXE - bcd file error

When I want to boot an unknown PC over PXE an error comes after it starts the boot\x64\pxeboot.n12 file. The error looks like a Windows 8 bluescreen and contains: Recovery Your PC needs to be repaired. The Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD)…
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Network boot of Windows Defender Offline will not update

I have been working on configuring a network bootable virus removal suite, and I am using the Windows Defender WinPE iso generated from using this 64-bit tool. The tool downloads and creates an ISO for you. I extract the ISO in order to get the…
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PXE DHCP configuration with existing DHCP server

How does a DHCP service need to be configured, so that it handles PXE requests while there is still another DHCP server on the network? I managed to set up a working PXE system in a separate environment (one server for DHCP, TFTP and HTTP, one…
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Why can I not get a WDS-originated PXE boot to progress past the first file download?

I'm trying to work out an automated Windows install process, and thought I'd give WDS a look. After some promising initial progress, I seem to have hit a wall. I imported the boot and install WIMs, and created the capture WIM successfully. …
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PXE bootable image for terminal server?

We have 300 windows xp machines on cruddy old hardware across the company. With extended support for XP ending April next year we're looking into our options. Couple of options: Replace the 300 PC's with full windows 7 PC's (£100k +?) - no use of…
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chmod -R 777 on PXE server - why

So I am following a guide to set up a PXE server, for reference here are the links: Actual PXE setup NFS PXE setup Live-cd PXE setup: Now throughout these guides he keeps running the chmod -R 777 . I have already gone through this…
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PXE Boot - Linux server & OpenBSD client

I have an old machine here I'm trying to setup as a diskless client running OpenBSD, booting from my fedora 10 machine. I've setup tftp and dhcp and both appear to be correct, yet the client just timesout trying to load the pxeboot. #…
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How do I fallback to boot from local hard drive in iPXE script?

I have a script being loaded from iPXE. What I want is to make the script fall back to boot from a local hard drive (or CDROM) on failure to boot from the san. The idea is allow installation of an Operating System onto the SAN target from local…
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