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== Description ==

== Description ==

This is a description of how to pxeboot various operating systems tool on devices connected to your network using the [[Thinclient|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server|tftp-server]] contributions.

This is a description of how to pxeboot various operating systems/tools on devices connected to your network using the [[Thinclient|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server|tftp-server]] contributions.

Hopefully, by using the files linked to here, and understanding what we have done, you should be able to add your own options/distributions for booting your devices.

Hopefully, by using the files linked to here, and understanding what we have done, you should be able to add your own options/distributions for booting your devices.

You will need to have installed the [[Thinclient#Installation|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server#Installation|tftp-server]] contributions.

You will need to have installed the [[Thinclient#Installation|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server#Installation|tftp-server]] contributions.

Don't worry about setting any tftp-server parameters, as these are handled by the Thinclient contrib.

Don't worry about setting any tftp-server parameters, as these are handled by the [[Thinclient_usage|Thinclient contrib]].

== Universal Boot CD (UBCD)  - the easy way ==

=== Universal Boot CD (UBCD)  - the easy way ===

I have created a sample set of files for deploying [http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ UBCD] to your devices here.

I have created a sample set of files for deploying [http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ UBCD] to your devices.

This uses memdisk and boots the liveCD over the network.

This approach uses the syslinux memdisk utility to boot the UBCD LiveCD over the network via pxelinux.

Log into your server as root and make sure that you are in the /tftpboot directory   

Log into your server as root and make sure that you are in the /tftpboot directory   

  cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 .

  cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 .

  cp /usr/share/syslinux/memdisk .

  cp /usr/share/syslinux/memdisk .

Download the latest copy of the ubcd iso [http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html from] into the /tftpboot/ubcd directory and create a link to it (my default file looks for ubcd.iso)

Download the latest copy of the ubcd iso from [http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/] into the /tftpboot/ubcd directory and create a link to it (my default file looks for ubcd.iso)

  ln -s ./ubcd<version>.iso ubcd.iso

  ln -s ./ubcd<version>.iso ubcd.iso

The current version at the time of writing this was ubcd535.iso, so:

The current version at the time of writing this was ubcd535.iso, so:

Or, if you are more adventurous, boot individual workstations, as per [[Thinclient_usage#Workstations|these directions]] for Individually controlled workstations.

Or, if you are more adventurous, boot individual workstations, as per [[Thinclient_usage#Workstations|these directions]] for Individually controlled workstations.