https://kb.unixservertech.com/ 2026-04-14T08:53:32+00:00 https://kb.unixservertech.com/ https://kb.unixservertech.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2017-05-02T02:24:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/other/networking/pxebooting/debian_installers?rev=1493691874&do=diff Debian PXE Installer Images Debian, as usual, has their own way of doing things. But, as usual, they are pretty logical when you figure it out. When you download a Debian netboot image, it will be a tar.gzip file. Unpacking it into tftp_root on your PXE server sets it up for boot. However, since our goal was to actually have multiple images, we need to do things a little different. I'm assuming you have read text/html 2017-05-02T01:17:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/other/networking/pxebooting/start?rev=1493687826&do=diff PXE Booting Preboot Execution Environment (PXE, pronounced pixie) is designed to allow a computer to boot from an image on its network. While it is generally used to boot diskless or low end workstations, it has several other applications. A nice discusion of it is found on Wikipedia