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Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions With Ubuntu Edgy Eft This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). 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: Ubuntu Edgy/Dapper, Debian Etch/Sarge, Fedora Core 6, CentOS 4.4, OpenSuSE 10.2, and Mandriva 2007.

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By: Wim

Running "sudo su - " gives you a root prompt, after typing your own password.

By: Michael Boman

sudo -s

does the same thing. On some distributions may you want to do

sudo -i

instead.

By: Anonymous

There is no /etc/init.d/inetd in Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS to fix this do

 /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart

 

By: mr.jay

It's sad, that this thread doesn't actualized anymore...

Would be interesting to see how it must be properly configured on modern versions of debian.

it is such a good deed - to revive an old laptop... pxe server is the best essential way to do that...

i've stuck on configuring tftpd-hpa service, seems some routing problems (as journalctl tells)

(smb, dnsmasq services & the structure of OS-iso image are ok)

By: Terry

This article is outdated and won't work anymore.