Network (PXE) boot of Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu install media.

Having been sick as a dog for nearly two weeks, I had the opportunity to kill some time setting up a PXE boot server for my network.

It’s working nicely now, so I can connect devices to my network & immediately boot via PXE to install media for Fedora, CentOS or Ubuntu. It’s also handy for virtual machines, connect them to a virtual network with dnsmasq dhcp setup to provide the pxe boot server address, and your VMs can PXE boot too.

If you need to PXE boot:

    • – Fedora 27 (server & live workstation iso media)

 

    • – CentOS 7.4

 

    • – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (server & live desktop iso media)

 

    – Ubuntu 17.04 (server & live desktop iso media)

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