> check out developer.intel.com - PXE is an intel standard, and they had a > couple of good pdf's on it. I'd send you a more precise link, but I > can't seem to get into the site now. > > put simply, it is an environment in which your NIC gets the files > required for booting from another machine over the network (i.e. kernel, > initrd.img). it's commonly used to do remote installs over the > network. you can also use it to boot diskless nodes which will > NFS-mount their roots. > > if you have the pxe rpm installed, there is documentation in > /usr/doc/pxe-X.X that might help. if this has already been mentioned then I'm sorry for the duplication but this page is useful http://people.redhat.com/minter/tips/pxe-2md.html and if you're using isc's dhcp - then you'll want to add this to your pxe clients options: option dhcp-class-identifier "PXEClient"; -sv
