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IT 3110 : Advanced System Administration

Diskless boot

Diskless

We have looked at how to install via PXE and how to automate that install, but what if I want to load the entire machine from PXE boot...

  • Our install, still installed the machine to disk
  • Diskless boot will pull the disk image from nfs server (can do this many times)

Components

  • DHCP = to give PXE next server
  • TFTP = to give PXE menu and initial ram disk
  • NFS = to serve other system files