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11.5. Manually configure a PXE server</h2></div></div></div><a id="id757126" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; ">
The following steps must be performed to prepare for a PXE installation:</div><div class="orderedlist" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; "><ol style="list-style-image: none; list-style-type: decimal; "><li class="listitem" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; ">
<div class="para" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; ">Configure the network (NFS, FTP, HTTP) server to export the installation tree.</div></li><li class="listitem" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; ">
<div class="para" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; ">Configure the files on the <code class="command" style="font-family: 'liberation mono', 'bitstream vera mono', 'dejavu mono', monospace; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold; ">tftp</code> server necessary for PXE booting.</div>
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Configure which hosts are allowed to boot from the PXE configuration.</div></li><li class="listitem" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; "><div class="para" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; ">
Start the <code class="command" style="font-family: 'liberation mono', 'bitstream vera mono', 'dejavu mono', monospace; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold; ">tftp</code> service.</div></li><li class="listitem" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; ">
<div class="para" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; ">Configure DHCP.</div></li><li class="listitem" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; ">
<div class="para" style="line-height: 1.29em; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; ">Boot the client, and start the installation.</div></li></ol></div></span><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You can boot from anything you want to use. It is in the Fedora docs online. </blockquote><div> </div></div><a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/ap-install-server.html">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/ap-install-server.html</a>