PXE

Reservation options

Reservation options

boot guid

boot guid

Boot file

Boot file

Create new Computer object

Create new Computer object

Boot file options

Boot file options

Boot server options

Boot server options

DHCP Predefined options

DHCP Predefined options

Installing and running the pxesconfig tool

Platform: We installed the tool on a fedora core 3 server.
The installation on this platform involves a number of dependency issues.

Creating PXE Boot images.

We decided after much trial and error to use PXES created by Diego Torres Milano.
This is an open source tool located at PXES Project

We encountered a number of problems installing this tool but the results were well worth the effort.

Howto Implement a pxes thinclient deployment in a MS dominated environment.


The faculty of health sciences at Ben Gurion University needed to deploy a set of 30 classroom computers to function as thinclients to a MS Windows 2003 Terminal Server.

We wanted to use existing classroom hardware - Pentium III, 64MB RAM computers and we needed to retain use of floppy disk, CD-Rom and disk-on-key USB devices, All network cards were Intel pro 100ve.

Our server infrastructure included MS based RIS Server, DHCP and AD servers, working over a 100MB Ethernet network.

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