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| + | ======How to network boot operating systems with gPXE====== | ||
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| =====Introduction===== | =====Introduction===== | ||
| gPXE is a new version of the well know Etherboot project.\\ | gPXE is a new version of the well know Etherboot project.\\ | ||
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| - | **NOTE*: Although I used Linux in this HowTo you can use any O.S running DHCP and TFTP servers to make this work.\\ | + | **NOTE**: Although I used Linux in this HowTo you can use any O.S running DHCP and TFTP servers to make this work.\\ |
| - | My boot server at home runs NetBSD and works great. All you need is the compiled gPXE binary. | + | My boot server at home runs NetBSD and works great with this setup. All you need is compiled gPXE binary. |
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| I will not be going into details here. This config file is using the "conventional TFTP" configuration with **/home/tftpboot** as it's relative root directory fetching all the files from there.\\ | I will not be going into details here. This config file is using the "conventional TFTP" configuration with **/home/tftpboot** as it's relative root directory fetching all the files from there.\\ | ||
| The subnet definition will hand out IPs for our clients from defined range.\\ | The subnet definition will hand out IPs for our clients from defined range.\\ | ||
| - | PXE booting your client it will first download the gPXE binary which will "take over" from there and download it's own configuration file.\\ | + | When PXE booting your client, it will first download the gPXE binary which will "take over" from there and download it's own configuration file.\\ |
| The **if not exists gpxe.bus-id** option is used to first hand out the undionly.kpxe file to PXE and then the menu.gpxe configuration file to gPXE. | The **if not exists gpxe.bus-id** option is used to first hand out the undionly.kpxe file to PXE and then the menu.gpxe configuration file to gPXE. | ||
