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An [Acronym] for __P__re-boot E__x__ecution __E__nvironment.

A way of booting computers over the network, much the same as Etherboot. Most modern adapters support [PXE] now, although they generally still need to have the PXE [BIOS] enabled for this to work.

Some [NIC] chipsets that support [PXE]:

* RealTek 8139
* [Intel] Pro 100 family
* Lots of [3Com] cards

If you have a [PXE]-bootable card, and a compliant motherboard [BIOS], it will boot off [PXE] just fine. You can see it trying to do this as the machine boots – it might prompt to boot off the [NIC], or it might say something about [DHCP], or so on.

If for some reason your machine won't boot via [PXE], you can try this [(untested) image of a PXE-on-disk bootdisk | http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/PXE/pxebootdisk.img]. To create a disk with it, issue <tt>dd if=pxebootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0</tt>.

The next step, of course, is to making your [PXE]-booting machine do something… PXELINUX, which is part of SysLinux, will help you out here. PXES (mentioned on the DisklessWorkstationNotes page) also makes use of [PXE].

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Last edited on Friday, July 7, 2006 11:58:50 am by AristotlePagaltzis

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