PXE Magic

Kyle Rankin

Sr. Systems Administrator

Quinstreet Inc.

Author of Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks

http://greenfly.org/talks/pxe/pxe-magic.html

"Pixie?"

Agenda

In this talk I'll cover...

Create a PXE boot server

You need three things:

Create a PXE boot server

DHCP server

Create a PXE boot server

TFTP server

Create a PXE boot server

Install pxelinux

Create a PXE boot server

/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ config files

PXE boot a client

Netboot PXE-incompatible NICs

Kickstart

LTSP

Knoppix

Clustering Knoppix-based distros

Other PXE Uses

pxelinux Menus

PXE menus in action

Questions?

Some useful links