PXE boot server help needed

[Net Llama!]

After about 8 hours of work, i got a PXE boot server working on FC4.  It
wasn't that hard in hindsight, just a matter of tracking down the right
instructions from assorted sources via googling.  This page was definitely
the most useful:
http://dev.brantleyonline.com/wiki/index.php/General_Network_%28PXE%29_Booting

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> Isn't it a matter of setting up DHCP to point to some tftp location,
> where you have the RH files? Perhaps if RH have not wrapped the kernel
> image used when booting an install, you may need to look at MKNBI. It
> wraps a kernel in a format a PXE client expects. I have done this for
> some Gentoo diskless systems.
>
> You can also make a pxegrub that DHCP can serve to the PXE client, and
> have a nice menu where the user could select installing, booting or
> whatever. In this case, the PXE client boots GRUB over the net and GRUB
> runs whatever. Then you can skip the MKNBI wrapper stuff- which is a
> PITA.
>
> An interesting site for any client side stuff is:
>
> http://www.rom-o-matic.net/5.4.0
>
> to get boot images. This allows you to make a computer without PXE
> support in the network card BIOS do PXE.
>
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 17:05, Net Llama! wrote:
> > I seem to need to have to setup a PXE boot server to install RH.  Having
> > never done this before, i was wondering if anyone had any
> > quick/dirty/simple steps for getting one setup?
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