[gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

[gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

[James]

All,

Trying to set up a PXE boot solution in a lab environment instead of
rebuilding *nix systems repeatedly.

I have a few questions, below.

- are there any good PXE servers out there? I'm looking for something
with an easy-to-use front-end that I can use to easily deploy and
build new Linux "deployment" I want to boot via PXE

- what is gPXE all about? I hear it's better (supports boot-from-http,
etc.), but I haven't seen any concrete examples on how to set up a
gPXE Linux boot

Any thoughts / ideas appreciated.

-j

Re: [gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

[Keith Dart]

=== On Mon, 11/02, James wrote: ===
> - are there any good PXE servers out there? I'm looking for something
> with an easy-to-use front-end that I can use to easily deploy and
> build new Linux "deployment" I want to boot via PXE

===

I use dnsmasq, which can also handle PXE booting (it's just a
particular setup of DHCP and TFTP). 



-- Keith Dart

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Re: [gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:52:05 -0800, Keith Dart wrote:

> I use dnsmasq, which can also handle PXE booting (it's just a
> particular setup of DHCP and TFTP). 

+1


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Neil Bothwick

Work is the curse of the partying class!

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Re: [gentoo-user] (g)PXE booting

[James]

I guess what I was looking for was something like the Altiris PXE boot
server, where you can set up a repository of different PXE boot
options, etc.

-j

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:52:05 -0800, Keith Dart wrote:
>
>> I use dnsmasq, which can also handle PXE booting (it's just a
>> particular setup of DHCP and TFTP).
>
> +1
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Work is the curse of the partying class!
>