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Why do I need PXE to boot Ubuntu?
PXE booting makes it both easier and cheaper to manage a network, and the ability to serve custom Ubuntu images from a Windows Server can help make your environment more robust.
How to install Linux onto a server blade using PXE?
To install Linux onto a server blade using PXE you will need the following: A PXE boot server machine. This machine must be running one of the following operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Advanced Server 2.1 update 2
What is the configuration file for Red Hat PXE?
The Red Hat PXE boot installation is controlled by the ks.cfg configuration file. The SuSE PXE boot installation is controlled by the autoyast.xml configuration file. During installation you will update this file to use the correct NFS server address.
How to change the boot image in Configuration Manager?
In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Software Library workspace, expand Operating Systems, and then select the Boot Images node. Select the boot image that you want to modify. On the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Properties group, select Properties.
Where do I find the live CD in PXE?
Under Storage, click the single disk under Controller: IDE. On the right of the screen under Attributes, click the disk with an arrow next to the field CD/DVD Drive. Click Choose a virtual file. Navigate to where you downloaded the Live CD and select it.
What can I do with an Ubuntu image?
You can use these images to give users the same basic environment to work from, have an easily-restorable system (just power-cycle the machine), perform diagnostics on a malfunctioning machine, and more.
How to get UEFI BIOS image from DHCP?
B. Run tcpdump on the server, to check which files are being requested (tcpdump must be installed): It is possible to configure dhcp to offer different images to different clients based on MAC address and some other variables, which could be used to offer UEFI (bootx64.efi) and legacy BIOS (pxelinux.0) images, but this is not covered here.