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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 use either a [[removable|bootable floppy disk]], a [[removable|bootable CD-ROM]], or a [[removable|bootable USB key]]; this is the quickest way to get started with gPXE.
  * Network card manufacturers, OEMs, and seasoned users probably want to try [[romburning|burning gPXE into the network card]], or [[biosext|adding gPXE to the BIOS]].
  * Users with existing large PXE deployments may want to [[pxechaining|chainload 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]]
  * [[aoeboot|ATA-over-Ethernet boot]]

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