In the April 2008 issue of Linux Journal, Kyle Rankin's article “PXE Magic” explains how PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) works and how you can install your own PXE server and integrate rescue ...

One of the aspects of home lab life is that you're constantly reinstalling devices or virtual machines. It gets annoying after a while, which is partly why my home lab server also has copies of the ...

Long story short, I have a linux DHCP/PXE VM that (ideally) will serve Altiris, Ghost, and Jumpstart (I guess, I'm not on the Jumpstart project) boot images. It's currently serving IPs correctly, and ...

In this article, I've decided to follow up on a topic I wrote about not in my column directly, but as a feature article called "PXE Magic" in the April 2008 issue. In that article, I talk about how to ...

VMware Workstation can perform a PXE boot over the local network, as version 4.5. PXE stands for "Pre-boot eXecution Environment" and is a standard developed by Intel to allow a device with PXE ...

I'm trying to install Linux on my IBM X30 (no cd, no floppy) via a PXE boot image. I suppose I could borrow an external cd drive and just do it that way, but I would learn nothing from the experience, ...

Once upon a time, configuring or troubleshooting a user’s computer meant that someone from IT or the corporate help desk had to actually visit that computer—with installation software, diagnostics and ...

Many of us have experienced the pain that is a Raspberry Pi with a corrupted SD card. I suspect the erase-on-write nature of flash memory is responsible for much of the problem. Regardless of the ...