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Debian Network boot with a VLAN (DHCP + TFTP)

I've been given 34 servers (HP Proliant) to use for HPC. Due to the server owners' request, 33 of these will need to act as diskless thick clients, and one will act as DHCP and TFTP server to enable ...
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debian PXE install content of preseed.cfg file to ensure network firmware gets installed

I have a trouble using the preseed.cfg file while installing Debian by PXE. My network card needs the firmware-bnx2 package to be taken in account by the debian kernel. During the PXE boot process, ...
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Debian netboot via PXE required files

I'm trying to perform a netboot to install Debian on a spare PC I have. I'm using a Windows XP Pro box as the "server". It has a TFTP/DHCP server set up and running on it, but the information on which ...
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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 ...