Application Notes
This section contains examples of specific tasks that people have accomplished using gPXE and related software. You may find some of these examples helpful.
- iSCSI Enterprise Target on Fedora 8 - steps to install the iSCSI Enterprise Target (http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net) on Fedora 8
- User-specific boot menus - a proof of concept for providing dynamic boot menus to authenticated users
- Porting Windows XP to New Target Hardware via SAN-Booting - techniques to create a single image that supports many different computer models
- Copy-on-Write AoE - an illustration of using copy-on-write loopback devices to reduce disk usage on an AoE target
- Tiny Core Linux over HTTP - a 10 MB Linux distro with apps loadable on demand
- Compaq Armada Flashing - steps to flash gPXE to a Compaq Armada (and Prosignia) Notebook
- Building gPXE on a Mac - includes advice on running it as well, but some driver support is required before that'll be useful
- How to network boot operating systems with gPXE - How to setup a boot server and how to create a custom menu allowing you to chose a “boot profile”.
- Poorman's Public mirror - A way to mirror all your favorite distributions with little space.
- Autoboot without a DHCP-supplied boot path - Optain IP routing via DHCP on any network interface and chainload from an embedded URL.
- PXELINUX/TFTP to gPXE/HTTP - Seemless Migration from TFTP/PXELINUX to HTTP/gPXE
- SAN image transfer - Notes and alternative methods for transferring disk images to a SAN target
- SRP installation - Installing Windows Server 2008 directly to an SRP SAN target
- Boot by MAC Address - Network booting using MAC address to specify operating system image
- Using gPXE 1.0.0 with qemu-0.9.1 - Patches for getting gPXE to work nicely with qemu-0.9.1
- gPXE on VMWare - Adding a gPXE ROM directly to a VMWare virtual machine.
