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How do I PXE boot multiple Windows 7 desktops off the same image?

Some years ago at my university, I recall that the labs there booted Windows NT over the network. There was a shared drive for your own stuff and other than that any changes you did to the running OS were reset when you restarted the machine. Now…
hookenz
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UEFI netboot menu

I have an existing PXE syslinux environment and I'd like to set up a similar EFI-based netboot environment. I'm a big fan of the various menus as seen in the screenshot below and I'd like to find something equivalent. Ideal features would…
MikeyB
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Giving a new life to an old SPARC machine - boot and install related problems

My problem isn't one you encounter on a daily basis, yet I find interesting enough to share and ask for help. From the beginning: the academic scientific group I am a member of (we are focused on networking-related stuff) got today an ooold SPARC…
Wiesław Herr
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How to boot ISO image using gpxe and memdisk?

I have a repository of an ISO images (many different OS installers in ISO format) under http://myrepos/*.iso. I would like to boot from that repo using gPXE (with/without memdisk if necessary) and httpfs. I don't want to extract those ISO images. It…
user24514
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What do you have on your PXE server?

Basically, what cool utilities does everyone have loaded up on a PXE server ready to use on any computer you netboot from? I've just set one up at home with the following: Clonezilla Memtest86 Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Netbook remix…
Matt
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AOE windows Server/Target and Client/Initiator for Windows7/2012 or later

I've been using iSCSI for virtual SAN implementations... I've already used in the past a diskless-boot system based on AOE (32 bits)... In my case AOE has some advantages over iSCSI for small LAN implementations (no routing needed, AOE traffic is…
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How do I fallback to boot from local hard drive in iPXE script?

I have a script being loaded from iPXE. What I want is to make the script fall back to boot from a local hard drive (or CDROM) on failure to boot from the san. The idea is allow installation of an Operating System onto the SAN target from local…
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How do I get a Mac to request a new IP address from another DHCP server running in parallel while NetBooting?

I have an interesting situation. I'm trying to us a Linux based machine to allow Mac's to Netboot (similiar to PXE boot) by running a DHCP service in parallel with the "global" DHCP server. The local DHCP server hands out IPs in a private subnet,…
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PXE boot kernel panic

I am having trouble setting up a PXE boot server. I've got isc-dhcp-server running, tftp-hpa serves the files over tftp (verified works), and apache2 hosts the rootfs image. The PXE client seems to download the kernel and initrd files correctly,…
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How to make BSDP NetBoot image selection from a script on OS X 10.9+?

Background: BSDP is Apple's protocol used to discover and make selections on NetBoot servers on the network (Not to be confused with PC-style PXE boot). specs (Word doc). Long story short - it's a protocol that sits above DHCP, using INFORM messages…
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Netboot Debian (wheezy) from NFS v4

Is it possible to boot Debian Wheezy from NFS v4? Bootwing with NFS v3 works just fine. NFS v4 not. This is in my /etc/exports: /nfs 192.168.100.0/24(ro,sync,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) /nfs/root…
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Host a PXE or network boot image on Windows 7 LAN?

I've never booted with PXE or network share, but now need to reinstall an OS on my laptop with a dead DVD drive and no budget to replace it. Looking for a free product to host the boot image on Windows 7, then connect to it via PXE or Network Share.…
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Netboot OS X installation from an Ubuntu Linux system

I'm interested in netbooting an OS X install (Snow Leopard) from my Ubuntu box. I've made an ISO of the install dvd, but I'm not sure how to proceed from here. I know it's possible to do this from an OS X server, but can it be done from Linux as…
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SCCM 2012 Windows PE issues

Just got some lenovo X240, i7 with touch screen.. I got two issues when trying to enter Windows PE. (PE enviroment is 8.1) 1: First of all I don't get anything in the 'image selection: .. its blank.. The task sequence I use works perfectly on the…
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Ubuntu Preseed not using local mirror

I have a full ubuntu mirror located on the server http://leelah.home.ianwilson.org/ubuntu/ In my preseed.cfg file, I have the following d-i config for selecting my country mirror: d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string…
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