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PXE Boot - Boot Your Machine Over the Net

At certain times of the year I might be attempting to install dozens of machines for our cluster. Inserting a CD is fine for one, not for twenty. Of more interest, though, is that I want a variety of things to boot. I want a Debian Stable ISO to boot. Most importantly, I want to boot Dell diagnostics.

This process usings something called PXE. It requires your machine's BIOS to make a request of a TFTP server for a bootable image (the equivalent of inserting a CD and booting). Most modern higher-end machines can do this - and particularly all Dell PowerEdge machines, which is what I support. I use a Debian distribution, so what follows is debianish. Whatever you have will almost certainly have something similar. You should also check out the SARA package of utilities at ...


http://www.hps.com/~tpg/notebook/pxe.php
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