Setting Up a Server in Linux

1 Setting Up A PXE Install emcee For Multiple Linux Distributions With Ubuntu Edgy Eft

 
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Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 12/15/2006

This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install emcee with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). A PXE install emcee allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution everywhere 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 dont have CD or floppy drives, or if you want to set up aggregate computers at the same time (e.g. in a big(p) enterprise), or simply because you want to save the money for the CDs/DVDs. In this article I show how to configure a PXE emcee that allows you to boot multiple distributions: Ubuntu Edgy/Dapper, Debian Etch/Sarge, Fedora subject matter 6, CentOS 4.4, OpenSuSE 10.2, and Mandriva 2007.

I want to say first that this is not the sole(prenominal) means of setting up such a system. at that place are m any(prenominal) ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this willing work for you!





 


1 1 preliminary Note

It is important that you have a decent internet lodge because your client computers will fetch all needed packages from the repositories in the internet (I tested this on a 16MBit ADSL2+ connection which seems to be fast enough. ;-)). It is possible to store all packages on the PXE waiter as well so that you dont need an internet connection (just the LAN connection to the PXE server), but then you need a lot of storage space on the PXE server (remember, it will serve multiple distributions), so I dont cover this here.

And the almost important thing is that your client computers support booting over the network. You should apprehend each computers BIOS for this option.

On our system that should serve as the PXE server you should have already set up a elemental Ubuntu 6.10 server system, for example as shown on pages 1 - 3 of this...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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