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====== HowTo Guides ======

This page contains guides to performing a variety of network booting tasks.  You'll need to [[download]] and build gPXE before trying most of them.

===== How to deploy gPXE =====

There are three typical deployment scenarios for gPXE.  New users should probably look at using either a [[removable#floppy|bootable floppy disk]], a [[removable#cdrom|bootable CD-ROM]], or a [[removable#usb|bootable USB key]]; this is the quickest way to get started with gPXE.

For a more permanent solution, you can either

  * [[romburning|burn gPXE into the network card]], or
  * [[pxechaining|chainload into gPXE from an existing PXE ROM]].

===== How to boot from a web server =====

gPXE can boot from a web server just as easily as from a TFTP server.  Web servers typically scale better than TFTP servers, and don't suffer from the file size limitations and other problems that plague TFTP booting.

  * [[httpboot|HTTP boot]]

===== How to boot from SAN =====

Boot from SAN is the process of booting from a remote disk, using a protocol such as iSCSI or AoE.  It can be used to boot operating systems that do not generally support network booting, such as Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP.

  * [[iscsiboot|iSCSI boot]]

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