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

• 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.