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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 one of these media for booting, as this is the quickest way to get started with gPXE:
- Network card manufacturers, OEMs, and seasoned users probably want to use one of these methods:
- Users with existing large PXE deployments may want to use:
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.
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.