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Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions On Debian Lenny This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server on Debian Lenny. A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc. This is handy if your client computers don't have CD or floppy drives, or if you want to set up multiple computers at the same time (e.g. in a large enterprise), or simply because you want to save the money for the CDs/DVDs. In this article I show how to configure a PXE server that allows you to boot multiple distributions (i386 and x86_64): Debian Lenny, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 10, CentOS 5.3, OpenSuSE 11.1, and Mandriva 2009.1.
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Thanks for this tutorial. Here are a couple of suggestions.
Instead of dhcp3-server, dnsmasq is a DNS caching and DHCP server aimed at home users. It is very simple and intuitive to configure and includes dhcp boot server examples in its configuration file. It even includes its own tftp server.
Also, to automate downloading and installing Debian Installer files in /var/lib/tftpboot, install the package 'di-netboot-assistant'.
Thanks very much for this. I've been trying for about a week to do this, after finding your page it was working in less than an hour. Very clear and concise. Thank you again!
What if I have dhcp? How do I configure?