Miscellaneous

This section is a work in progress. I have not tested all of the following - Erwan (Tiny PXE Server author) reports them as working.

HTTP Support

Tiny PXE Server supports HTTP paths in the root option - enabling network booting Linux distributions directly from the internet. Using this method no local files are required. The two examples below are for network installs of the respective Operating Systems -

Debian

Add the following options to config.ini -

Ubuntu

Add the following options to config.ini -

DHCP Option 17

DHCP Option 17 (opt17 in config.ini) can be used to specify a path for the Client systems root disk. This option can be used to directly boot an AoE or iSCSI disk using iPXE - without using any scripts or menu entries.

AoE

Add the following options to config.ini (editing the LUN (Logical Unit Number) as required to reflect your own setup) -

iSCSI

Add the following options to config.ini (editing the LUN (Logical Unit Number) as required to reflect your own setup) -

Screenshot of diskless 64-bit Windows 7 SP1 (AoE disk) -

ipxe > pxelinux.0 HTTP Support

It's possible for pxelinux.0 to use the HTTP protocol if the pxelinux network bootstrap program is chainloaded from iPXE (e.g. ipxe.pxe)

To make use of this feature, specify pxelinux.0 as alternative filename with iPXE as boot file. E.g. -

Document date - 28th February 2017(DRAFT)