Re: [SLE] How to set up PXE server?

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:27:41 -0300

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On Monday 01 November 2004 4:06 pm, Hugo wrote:
> Has anybody done this with SuSE? I've seen some very short
> descriptions about it, but they are generic and feel outdated (no
> YAST, well not SuSE at all...) and they always mention having a DHCP
> server at the linux box (without any great explanation to why). I have
> it at the NAT box and can not really change that - unless it really is
> impossible to do it otherways.

You need a DHCP server because PXE *uses* DHCP. It needs to get it's IP
address and the name of the file it needs to boot. It will then get the boot
file over tftp. (use atftpd for that)

There's a lot of info here:

 http://www.kegel.com/linux/pxe.html

You may also want to check out the suse-autoinstall list.

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James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
joakley@solutioninc.com
http://www.solutioninc.com
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