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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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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Booting linux via PXE
I would have like to have the option to boot the linux
of my choice (Debian, Mandriva, RedHat, Ubuntu, ...) via
PXE. That way I would not have to take the trouble to
do an installation on too many ...
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Kickstarting VMWare ESX 4.1 (Error: No NIC with name bootif)
I'm having an issue kickstarting an installation of VMWaare ESX Classic 4.1. I've stripped down my kickstart a bit to just:
accepteula
keyboard us
auth
clearpart --firstdisk --overwritevmfs
url ...
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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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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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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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how to install a CentOS 6.0 KVM guest on a CentOS 6.0 host server with virt-install and PXE
The host server (running CentOS 6.0) only has one public IP address and will be hosting many KVM guests so it needs to use a virtual network switch configuration in NAT mode.
I have previously used ...
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Clonezilla-SE with another DHCP Server in LAN
I want to install Clonezilla-Server(192.168.1.100) in a network that already have a DHCP Server (dd-wrt with dnsmasq - 192.168.1.1).
I've installed Clonezilla-SE on ubuntu Server 10.10, once installed ...
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How to deploy Windows Embedded Standard?
What is the usual workflow of deploying Windows Embedded Standard 2009 on clients? I haven't found an official guide yet and would appreciate a link. Is additional software needed for deployment? ...
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PXE bootable browser
I would like to have a system that boots using PXE and only runs a single application: A graphical webbrowser with a hardcoded homepage that loads upon opening.
I could use the Knoppix Terminal ...
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Pxe net install Centos with Static IP
I seem to be unable to perform a kickstart installation of centos5.8 with a netinstall.
It correctly gets into the text installer, but keeps sending out a request for the dhcp server and failing. I ...
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Setting a VM boot CD via PowerCLI
I have a sneaking suspicion that this may be a bug, but I'm definitely willing to entertain the possibility that I'm doing things wrong.
I have a VMware virtual machine in $vm, and I'm trying to ...
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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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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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PXE-E32 TFTP Open Timeout While Attempting to PXE Boot from Windows Deployment Services
I'm running Windows Deployment Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 on top of an ESX 4.0 box. This is the only function of this VM instance, although it had previously functioned as an AD Domain ...
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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, ...
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Use GRUB/GRUB2 to PXE boot OS image
Asked this in stackoverflow but they recommended I post this here:
Here is the situation I am in:
I currently have a Windows drive that boots XP. The BIOS does not support PXE booting so this is out ...
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Problems with kickstart script, partition info crashes deployment
Currently testing cobbler, but have problem with the kickstart script when the partition information is loaded.
Here is my ks:
http://pastebin.ca/1824343
I can't figure out what is the problem with ...
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Network OS install server
I am looking setup a server that will allow us to install OS's (such as windows xp) over a network boot. Is there any solutions out there that will allow such a thing?
Edit: Also i wanted to point ...
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CloneZilla PXE Boot Without NFS
I am trying to setup CloneZilla to be bootable via PXE without using NFS. I do not have NFS running on our PXE server and would like to keep it that way. However, most of the information that I have ...
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Does nova support pxe boot?
I'm working on an OpenStack-based project. Now we need a virtual machine to boot from PXE. I cannot find any document about that. Does nova support PXE boot? If yes, how do I create a KVM image that ...
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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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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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How to run a server using only a network hard disk
I know that i can use PXE to boot the server, but is it possible to boot the server from the network and than tell it that he need to use some kind of network disk for its os? So that i don't need any ...
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Multiple PXE boots on the same subnet for RIS and WDS
We are looking to migrate off our existing server 2003 sp2 machine, running RIS (which I know is WDS as of Server 2003 Sp2, but to be clear..) with a bunch of legacy RiSETUP images to a Server 2008 r2 ...
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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 ...
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MDT: oob drivers not being injected
I'm trying to use MDT and WDS to image a machine.
I've got the image of the reference cpu via a vmware machine.
I tried running LiteTouch via PXE on the target machine. It gives me an error:
A ...
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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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Server 2008 - VirtualBox - WDS - PXE Booting Windows 7 - no file found
I know this is a particularly difficult thing to troubleshoot as there are various complexities in the setup, but wondering if anyone has experienced this and can recognise the issue / offer some ...
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Using IPMI inside a python script (OpenIPMI)
I'd like to use IPMI to set machines to PXE boot (i.e. ipmitool -I lan -U username -P password -H ipaddress chassis bootdev pxe) and then power cycle them (i.e. ipmitool -I lan -U username -P password ...
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Make Windows Server 2003 DHCP exclude a certain MAC
how can i refuse to assign an IP to a certain mac-address? or the other way round: how can i let the DHCP-server assign an IP only to some very special mac-addresses?
i'm running two DHCP-servers on ...
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installing programs to client over Ubuntu server
I am guessing this is possible, however I am not sure what protocol(s) to use and pretty much the way to go about this.
Let's say for instance Open Office -- how could we set up our Ubuntu server to ...
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Installing Windows 7 over PXE, preferably with domain autojoin
At an educational non-profit, I've inherited a previously set-up Windows domain that, after the first reinstall of the machines, we ended up not using by simply not joining machines back into the ...
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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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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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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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Best way to enable PXE on 300 Dell machines
I have about 300 Dell machines (Optiplex, Latitude, Precision) that I need to enable PXE on. I'm hoping to avoid going to each and every single one.
Is there a way to remotely push the command out ...
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LTSP - TFTP, PXE and pxelinux.0 issue
After my ltsp-build-client --arch i386
All went well, but for some reasons tftpd-hpa wasn't installed there were no /var/lib/tftpboot folder.
So I had to install tftpd-hpa manually. DHCP is working ...
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Kickstart PXE boot ubuntu 10.04
I am trying to do a fully automated install of Ubuntu 10.04
My pxelinux.cfg/default file looks like this -
label linux
kernel ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux
ipappend 2
append ...
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Test Boot from PXE server w/o DHCP by specifying PXE server to use?
Is it possible to test a PXE client by directly expressing the pxe server to use?
I'd like to preferably specify this in grub or from a test VM with CentOS installed. This isn't meant as a production ...
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SCCM PXE not working
How do I get the SCCM server to direct the clients so they get DHCP, and connect to the SCCM server?
Do I need to have the WDS role installed? Is this a requirement?
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Why should I use cobbler over normal PXEBOOT server?
Maybe it's me but I find it easier to manage my simple pxeboot server just by editing the default file under /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg. I have my kickstart file available over NFS along with the DVD ...
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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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PXE network installations / Live Sessions
I was wondering is it possible to "link" more than one PXE server together?
i.e. have 2 seperate physical PXE servers both configured in there own ways...
but having machine A to be the primary (ip ...
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RIS: Risetup flat image only shows up on multiprocessor machines
I've got a RIsetup image that should, theoretically, show up on all pxe compatable clients. Right now it only shows up on machines with multiple processors.
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Proxmox and PXE boot
I have 10 rack servers, each has an 80 GB hard drive, and a Dell PowerVault with no hard drives.
It is possible to take all these hard drives and put them in the PowerVault cluster, then boot proxmox ...
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Can ISC dhcpd operate as a proxy dhcp server for PXE boot?
I have an existing LAN with a DHCP server already dishing out IP addresses.
For various reasons I cannot replace that server so it will still need to dish out IP addresses.
I've been experimenting ...
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What is needed to use TFTP/PXE with failover ucarp?
I have a Linux TFTP/PXE server which works.
If I setup failover on 192.168.245.1 which is where TFTP is being served, the client fails with tftp open timeout.
I am testing with
tftp 192.168.245.1
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