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====== HowTo Guides ====== This page contains guides to performing a variety of network booting tasks. You'll need to [[download]] and build gPXE before trying most of them. ===== How to deploy gPXE ===== There are three typical deployment scenarios for gPXE. * New users should probably use one of these media for booting, as this is the quickest way to get started with gPXE: * [[removable|bootable floppy disk]] * [[removable|bootable CD-ROM]] * [[removable|bootable USB key]] * Network card manufacturers, OEMs, and seasoned users probably want to use one of these methods: * [[romburning|burning or flashing gPXE into a network card]] * [[biosext|adding gPXE to the BIOS]] * Users with existing large PXE deployments may want to use: * [[pxechaining|chainloading gPXE from an existing PXE ROM]]. ===== How to boot from a web server ===== gPXE can boot from a web server just as easily as from a TFTP server. Web servers typically scale better than TFTP servers, and don't suffer from the file size limitations and other problems that plague TFTP booting. * [[httpboot|HTTP boot]] ===== How to boot from SAN ===== Boot from SAN is the process of booting from a remote disk, using a protocol such as iSCSI or AoE. It can be used to boot operating systems that do not generally support network booting, such as Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP. * [[sanboot|Boot from SAN]]