Installation Using PXE

2.2. Installing Software on the PXE Server

2.2 Installing Software on the PXE Server

Next, you are supposed to install the necessary software on the PXE server. First of all, you need to install a

Linux operating system on the server. There are no speciﬁc requirements for which operating system to use,

so you can choose any (e.g., CentOS 6 or Fedora 17).

Once your system is up and running, install the following packages:

• tftp-server

• httpd (Install this package only if you plan to deploy the PXE and HTTP servers on the same physical server.)

• syslinux

• dhcp (Install this package only if you plan to deploy the PXE and DHCP servers on the same physical server.)

Assuming that your PXE server is running an RHEL-like operating system, you can use the yum utility to install

the packages:

# yum install tftp-server dhcp httpd syslinux

2.3 Conﬁguring the TFTP Server

In the next step, you need to conﬁgure the TFTP server that you installed in the previous step. This sec-

tion describes the process of conﬁguring the TFTP server for BIOS-based systems. For information on

how to conﬁgure the TFTP server for installing Acronis Storage on EFI-based systems, see Conﬁguring

for EFI in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-

US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-netboot-pxe-conﬁg-eﬁ.html.

To conﬁgure the TFTP server:

1. On the PXE server, open the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp ﬁle, and edit it as follows:

service tftp

{

disable = no

socket_type = dgram

protocol = udp

wait = yes