[TriLUG] anybody know how to configure PXE clients on linux dhcp?

davis davis at skink.net
Thu Oct 30 12:28:39 EST 2003


On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:14:38PM -0500, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:37 am, davis wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > My job recently took a turn for the worst in that I have to work with this
> > microsoft windows xp embedded crap.  As such, I need to configure my debian
> > linux dhcp server to handle dhcp requests from a windows machine.  I have
> > done the google thing and found the following
> >
> > option space PXE;
> > option PXE.mtftp-ip   code 1 = ip-address;

It turns out that I needed version 3 dhcp server. I was using version 2.

Thanks though.

JD
> > ....
> >
> >
> > However, this blows up my dhcp server.  ie. it chokes on the option "space"
> > keyword.  If you have done any netbooting of xp embedded clients I would
> > like to talk to you as well.
> 
> The Linux Terminal Server Project has documentation about booting from 
> diskless PCs, using PXE, bootfloppies...
> 
> You should get more than a hint there.
> 
> http://ltsp.org
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
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