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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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PXE boot Linux - which directories must be writable?

I'm planning to set up a small Hadoop cluster where the slave nodes boot and run from a central PXE server, to simplify deployment and updates, and to enable all of the disks on the slaves to be (almost) monopolized by HDFS. However, I suppose I'll…
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Is Imaging over wireless possible and/or feasible? PXE boot over Wireless?

I am looking to implement (if possible/feasible) the ability to image a PC and Mac via our wireless network. Is this actually possible? I have read multiple documents that newer Macbook Airs can do this, but would that require having Multicasting…
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What do I need to send an Extended DHCPOFFER with multiple boot options?

According to Wikipedia and a bazillion other pages, you can have: Proxy DHCP If a PXE redirection service (Proxy DHCP) receives an extended DHCPDISCOVER, it replies with an extended DHCPOFFER to the client's port 68/UDP (DHCP client port). An…
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Creating a bootable PXE image from a dos utility firmware updater

I was wondering if it was possible to make a PXE bootable image from a dos utility firmware. For some specifics the firmware updater is usually to be installed on a USB stick. I have all the flat files. Should I be fine just dumping the flat…
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Multiple PXE server same subnet

I've been struggling with this for some time. I have a few test machines that boot from the network, they receive the boot data from the DHCP server, this tells them who is the boot server where is the file they'll boot etc. However, I need to add a…
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pxe boot fails with message: no DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found

I am trying to pxe-boot a machine (client), and in the process I am trying to setup a tftp server that this machine can boot off. On the server, which runs Ubuntu 10.10, I have setup dhcp, dns, nfs, and tftp-hpa servers. All the servers/deamons…
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PXE boot -- kernel not found on TFTP server

I followed the following link for PXE boot, http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-pxe-install-server-on-ubuntu-9.10-p3 and I was able to ping the client from the server and also when I booted up the client It is getting the IP address from the…
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'Slow down' A DHCP server on purpose

As the title implies, May look like a silly question, But what i'm trying to do, Is to have 2 DHCP servers in one network. One only leases IPs to Bootp clients (And if the client re-requests immediately after leases again) And one DHCP server, which…
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How to setup PXE boot server in CentOS

I am working on researching a project for work and thought that I would ask for your advice. I am trying to find out how to setup a PXE boot server within CentOS that would allow us to PXE boot a variety of system tools and utilities. Ideally it…
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PXE boot and DHCP server configuration Failing Auto Installation

I have a ISC DHCP Server installed on Ubuntu 9.10 . I have managed to successfully boot a PXE client , obtain a DHCP address and load the initrd.gz file. But I am facing a vague problem when the debian installer starts up and tries to get a DHCP…
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Network booting from PXE

I need to use a network boot server. However, the DHCP Server is pointing to the wrong boot image filename and server. I can't change the DHCP Server itself, since that is controlled by another department. I just need to specify an IP for the PC to…
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Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i - pxe-e53 boot

I have an old PE 2950 that I use for all my home automation needs. Work great since a while, but, I was trying to upgrade my harddrive and now I have problem. Here's my setup before : 1- RAID-5 array with 6 disks and 1 Virtual Disks 2- RAID-0 array…
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Ubuntu kernel boot arg `ip=` not honored; can't determine why

I have a machine with two network interfaces. See below (context) for setup... My boot params look like: set i ${net0/ip} set ns 192.168.99.101 set t tftp://${ns}/pxelinux.cfg set h http://${ns}:8070/api/1.0 initrd ${t}/initrd.gz …
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How can I create a PXE boot image that runs a single executable on startup?

I'm in the process of setting up a compute cluster with the intent of using it for some parallel computing experiments. I have a single executable which I'd like to run on this cluster. Due to operational constraints on said cluster I can only…
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dnsmasq proxyDHCP PXE and EFI "start_image() returned Invalid Parameter"

I'm tying to install a PXE install server with dnsmasq in proyxDHCP mode. So far legacy BIOS install is working. When I try to use EFI it fails. With dhcpd the EFI boot is working. Therefore the shim.efi file should be fine. Unable to fetch TFTP…
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