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.
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How do I PXE boot multiple Windows 7 desktops off the same image?
Some years ago in my uni days I recall that the uni labs booted windows nt over the network.
There was a shared drive for your own stuff, and other than that any changes you did to the running OS were ...
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PXE boot Linux - what goes where?
I have an x86-64 machine that can boot via PXE, and want to boot a live Fedora 17. I do not want to install it, I just want to run as though booting the live CD.
For a server I have (read: am stuck ...
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Linux unattended installation
I'm wondering if it's possible to do a network installation (PXE Boot) from a disk image.
I know that I could use Kickstart files or Cobbler but my servers have a lot of custom settings (additional ...
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Is there a match on incoming interface in DHCPd classes?
(Note, the title of the question Is there a way to classify DHCP requests based on the interface they're coming from? is what I want answered, but it doesn't actually ask that question for a ...
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PXEboot over iscsi fedora, need help configuring Root path
I installed Fedora to an ISCSI target, but I am having trouble booting from it, specifically, I am having trouble passing the root path to the client machine.
The install was done from the Fedora ...
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Ubuntu installer over PXE doesn't see network adapters => can't download preseed
I'm booting one virtualbox VM from another virtualbox VM (with cobbler) over PXE. Both machines have 2 adapters: 1) external network and 2) host-only network.
The "client" VM successfully boots into ...
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SCCM 2012 unable to update boot images with pxe enabled
we are fighting an error in sccm 2012. When we attempt to distribute boot images (after selecting the pxe option) we receive an error that the pxe image cannot be expanded (distmgr log).
Can you ...
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PXE Boot Fedora 17 Error
When trying to boot into the latest Fedora 17 cd via PXE, I am presented with the following error:
PXE dracut: fatal: no or empty root= argument
So, I added a root= line to my fedora menu entry ...
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Loading multipath in SuSE install initrd for PXE
I'm reinstalling cluster nodes with SLES11-SP1. The nodes are boot on SAN and will use the official RDAC driver once installed. But during installation (boot from the network using PXE) there is no ...
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Add “Image Windows” to pxe boot menu
I have a Fog server running (which contains my OS images). However, when booting from a client I want to reimage it without using the web gui. So I need to add an entry to my pxelinux.cfg\default file ...
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Booting large ISO through PXE
I currently have a FOG server (which works perfectly fine) and I'm trying to boot Windows 7 through it (with memdisk).
But, since the ISO is rather large (more than 6 GB) it will try to put the ISO ...
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Modifying the initrd.img to run additional binaries in a PXE booted RHEL 6
I am trying to add additional automation to our existing RHEL 6 (or Oralce's implementation thereof) PXE install process by running a script in the %pre section of my kickstart config that call ...
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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 ...
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Boot and/or synchronise linux image from network
I'm looking for a solution (or at least for some guide/pathway/manual) to boot AND SYNCHRONISE Linux images from network. I already understand how network boot (PXE, DHCP, TFTP) works.
In my ...
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Change pointer to IP address of PXE server WDS
The company I'm working for bought another company that's got its own domain. We've connected these together and noticed that both domains have got their own WDS server.
Let's call our primary WDS ...
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setup rogue DHCP when using PXE boot
Recently I want to setup PXE boot server (i.e. DHCP server + TFTP server + syslinux software) for my company network in a LAN. I have read the setup details at here: ...
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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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FreeBSD Netboot over TFTP
Is there a way to boot FreeBSD over TFTP?
All the instructions I've seen require you to transition to NFS after PXEBOOT has loaded.
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OS X bootpd as dhcp server not giving out ip addresses
I'm experimenting with PXE lan-boot on my Mac OS 10.6;
After some prolonged trouble shooting, I've gotten to the point where LaunchD is nicely running bootpd with the following options:
<?xml ...
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Netboot Debian (wheezy) from NFS v4
Is it possible to boot Debian Wheezy from NFS v4?
Bootwing with NFS v3 works just fine. NFS v4 not.
This is in my /etc/exports:
/nfs ...
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How can I create a ram root disk for pxeboot of xen dom0?
I've been able to successfully boot a xen kernel and dom0 by setting up things according to this link:
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32
However, I'm wanting my root partition not to ...
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opensuse syslinux in a submenu
I'm trying to create a netboot installer that allows installing various versions of linux. My TFTP server is dnsmasq from debian wheezy. I've got debian, ubuntu, and fedora working fine, but I'm ...
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Remove expired PXE certificates from SCCM
Our SCCM 2007 R2 environment, which runs in native mode, just had its PXE client certificates renewed. Now, the site server automatically blocks the old certificates, but it appears that there is no ...
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Windows Server 2003 R2 SIS Groveler start error
Hi I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 running and I need to have a WDS with mixed mode so I can deploy Windows 7 & Windows XP images. I went to setup the first image and after the wizard was done ...
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Kickstart PXE Boot Installation not working
I tried installing PXE Boot Installation Server on RHEL 6.0. I seem to have done everything according to the page: http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html.
In my case, the client ...
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How do I pass arguments from the PXE command line to a kickstart %pre, %post script?
Basically I want an ARGV like usage on the PXE command line, but I can't see any documentation to do this.
basically I want to pass something like
scientific-linux-6 HOSTNAME VLAN
then in %pre hit ...
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How do I turn a bootable usb thumb drive into a PXE bootable image
I have a USB thumb drive containing a live boot environment.
It's actually set up like a HDD with a single ext2 partition within and boots a minimal customized version of linux.
How would I go about ...
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Booting with PXE over VLANs using Packetfilterrules in the Firewall
we´ve recently setup multiple (4) VLANs on ProCurve 2510G Switches and one Astaro v8.301 Gateway. We´ll have one PXE Server on VLAN 400 and Nodes to boot to PXE on VLAN 100, 200 and 300.
I would like ...
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PXE Boot FreeBSD ISO from a Linux PXE server
I have a working PXE boot server running on CentOS 5.5 that works perfectly for any flavor of Linux. I'm trying to add FreeBSD to the install options as a ISO memdisk, but so far nothing is working ...
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Overlapping DHCP scopes for different VLANs?
Should the following scenario work?
I have a DHCP server on VLAN 101, with the IP 192.168.0.5. I have two other VLANs 102 and 103 where I want to hand out IPs the same range 10.20.30.40-240, but from ...
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Conditionally offering PXE boot to a client
I am working on a pet project, and I am trying to figure out where I should start with achieving the following functionality:
I have a PXE boot rom that wlil do burn-in tests, my burn in test sets a ...
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Automatically deploying Windows Server 2003 and 2008 unattended
We are currently using PXE boots to automate the installations and reinstallations of our dedicated servers. This is working great for all Linux based systems like Debian, CentOS, VMware and Ubuntu in ...
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Network boot (PXE) and caching of files
I'm looking into changing how to deploy network boot for
clusters of servers.
My worry is network transfer since not all boxes will be close
to boot servers and network might be slow.
The machines ...
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Volume to capture dropdown blank /Windows OS VM/
I have setup a 2008 R2 WDS server and I am trying to boot with capture image. /Both server and clients are VM on the Vmware workstation./
But when I PXE boot the VM and enter the windows deployment ...
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Why does a PXE-booting VM aggressively seek Reverse ARP?
Reverse ARP is.. well, pretty much dead, as far as I'm aware? One of the great Internet success stories in killing off a protocol? It's been deprecated in favor of BOOTP (and later, DHCP) for almost ...
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How do I convince Dell blades to PXE Boot
Scenario:
Brand new Dell M610 blades.
Connected to the network with a 10GE uplink into a Dell PowerConnect M6220 blade switch.
DHCP server evidently working, as everything else boots / gets ...
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MAC addresses on dual-NIC mainboards
Here's a weird problem.
We've got a number of devices with dual-NIC mainboards. Some are Realtek NICs, which suck. Some are Intel e1000s, which don't.
I've just noticed on 2 machines, one is an ...
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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 ...
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PXE Boot PCLinuxOS ISO
I'm in the process of trying to convert some computers at my local school to be diskless browser stations. We've identified PCLinuxOS as the OS we'd like to use due to it's easy interface for ...
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PXE architecture: “BC EFI”
RFC 4578 defines various machine architectures for PXE as follows:
Type Architecture Name
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0 Intel x86PC
1 NEC/PC98
2 EFI Itanium
3 DEC Alpha
4 Arc ...
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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 ...
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Installing Windows on HP Proliant Servers without SmartStart
I have a PXE server for deploying Windows XP and Windows 7 to workstations.
The process is as follows:
Boot the workstation from the NIC.
Workstation sends a DHCP request.
DHCP server responds with ...
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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 ...
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Serve an NFS mount over TFTP
I have a FreeBSD server on which I would like to run a TFTP server (for PXE). My daemon of choice is tftp-hpa and I have it configured to serve from /tftpboot properly. It works unless I mount ...
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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 ...
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How do I set up PXE boot so that it failsover to another server when a MAC address is unrecognized?
We want to automate our OS installations. We currently have Linux and Windows boxes. We already use Cobbler for Linux installs with preliminary plans to use Windows Deployment Services for Windows.
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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 ...
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Alternative to PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini, possibly via USB?
Are there any decent ways to accomplish PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini (Core i5)? I need to be able to boot into CloneZilla over the network (as I want to image the Mac Mini's hard drive, and ...
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Temporary Windows 7 or Linux via PXE for examns
I am working in a university and we have some computer studios, in which some exams are done on computers (e.g. for working with office software, etc.). The exam obviously requires a clean system, so ...
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How to configure TFTPD32 to ignore non PXE DHCP requests?
I want to give our Windows guy a way of easily PXE booting machines for deployment by plugging his laptop into one of our site networks. I've set up a TFTPD32 configuration which does just that, and ...
