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

• Creating a bootable DOS USB disk under Windows

• Making User-specific boot menus

• 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.