Implement PXE network boot mode
For workstations without floppy drives, optical drives, to implement the PXE network boot mode, you need to complete three steps:
1, the PXE start setting setting of the workstation
PXE network launch generally requires PXE Boot Rom on the NIC (PXE Boot ROT ROM); for some models of NIC, you can also write the PXE start code (boot code) to the motherboard's Flash ROM; and some online cards are integrated Brand machine (such as Tsinghua Tongfang Business Machine), can directly support PXE boot.
The commonly used RTL8139 chip's network card, its PXE start setting mode is: When the machine starts pressing the SHIFT F10 according to the screen prompt, select PXE in the start type, turn on the network boot option.
2, make PXE boot files
Making the startup file of PXE, recommend 3COMical DABS (Dynamic Access Boot Services). DABS provides a powerful PXE boot service, management, but online for download is a 30-day trial version. So, we only use its launch image file making function, and by Windows 2000 Server's DHCP server provides PXE boot service.
DABS can be installed on any machine running Windows. After installation, run 3COT Image Editor, the main interface map appears. Select "Create TCP / IP or PXE Image File (CREATE A TCP / IP or PXE Image File", a dialog window appears. Named the upcoming image file, for example: PXEGHOST.IMG, other default options, place the normal network boot disk into the floppy drive, select [OK], create a PXE start image PXEGHOST.IMG file.
In the main menu of 3COT Image Editor, select "Creative PXE Menu Boot File (Creat A PXE Menu Boot File", select [Add (Add)] in the window, join our startup image file PXEGHOST you just created. IMG, in the Options tab, you can set the menu title and wait time.
Select [Save]], start the file to the saved PXE menu, named pxeMenu.pxe.
3, server PXE start service settings
Windows 2000 Server's DHCP service supports two startup protocols: DHCP and BOOTP. We can set the following three options: only DHCP, only bootp, both. If our local area network provides dynamic IP address assignments by other DHCP servers, then "BootP" is selected here; if you need this server to provide dynamic IP address assignment, you need to select "both."
Next, set the startup file name. Configure option "067: Start File Name" in the Scope Options of the DHCP Server, string values start the file name pxemenu.pxe for the PXE menu we created. Note: The file name does not contain the path.
The DHCP server just notifies the bootp client to the BOOTP client, what way the client downloads the boot file? The answer is that TFTP services are required. 3COM's DABS contains a TFTP service component, of course, you can also download a free TFTP server software for a long time.
