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DISKPART clean. DISKPART create partition primary. DISKPART select partition 1. DISKPART active. DISKPART format FSNTFS QUICK. DISKPART assign. DISKPART exit. Your drive is now formatted and marked bootable. Step 2 Copy the files from the Windows 7Windows 2. R2 ISO over to the USB stick. Start up cmd. exe again or use Windows Explorer to perform the same action. I prefer robocopy for this. Drive D is the mounted ISO image. Drive E is the bootable USB stick. D E MIRParameter referenceMIR MIRror a directory tree equivalent to E plus PURGE. Step 3 Make the USB flash drive bootable. Insert your Windows 7 or Windows 2. R2 DVD into your drive. Open a command prompt as administrator Start All Programs Accessories Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. Change your directory to the DVDs boot directory where bootsect. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive. Im assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk E by your computer. You can now close the command prompt window. Step 4 Use the USB flash drive to install your chosen operating system. Now you can either enter the BIOS commonly by pressing F2 on boot and choose USB HDD as your first boot medium. Or press F1. 2 and select the USB flash drive interactively. At this point you can run through the installation as you ordinarily would. Crash. How to install PXE Server on Ubuntu 1. If youre a System administrator, you happen to install many operating systems very often on your lab or workplace. Sometimes, you might fed up with installing OS on multiple systems everyday. Wouldnt be better if you could install OS on multiple systems at a time This is where PXE server comes in handy. PXE, abbreviation of preboot execution environment, allows us to deploy operating systems on multiple systems automatically at a time in the network. Also PXE server helps you to install an OS in a remote system that doesnt have any options for CDDVD or USB drives. In this tutorial, we will see how to install PXE Server on Ubuntu 1. LTS server, and how to configure it to deploy operating systems in the pxe client systems. Install PXE Server on Ubuntu 1. LTS server. I tested this guide on Ubuntu 1. LTS 6. 4 bit server. However, the steps might work on Debian and its derivatives. In order to setup PXE server, you need to have a working DHCP and TFTP servers. DHCP server is used to distribute the IP addresses for the network systems, so that the client systems can communicate with PXE server. And, TFTP server is used to download the installation files from PXE server and send them to the PXE clients. We can deploy PXE, and DHCP servers on the same system or use different systems for each server. Due to lack of resources, I have tested this on a single system. You can either use a separate system or single machine for all servers. Choice is yours. Lets get started. First, we need to setup DHCP server. To install DHCP server on Ubuntu, refer the following link. Once you installed DHCP server, install PXE server along with TFTP and other dependencies using command sudo apt get install apache. Install PXE server. PXE server has been installed. Let us go ahead and configure it. Configuring PXE server. Edit file etcdefaulttftpd hpa file using your favourite editor sudo nano etcdefaulttftpd hpa. Add the following lines at the end of the file to enable TFTP server. RUNDAEMONyes. OPTIONS l s varlibtftpbootConfigure PXE server. Edit etcinetd. conf file sudo nano etcinetd. Add or modify the following line at the end tftp    dgram   udp    wait    root    usrsbinin. Please note that If you use IPv. Save and close the file. Finally restart tftp service to take effect all changes. Check if tftp service is running or not with command sudo systemctl status tftpd hpa. Sample output tftpd hpa. LSB HPAs tftp server. Loaded loaded etcinit. Active active running since Mon 2. IST 1min 4. 7s ago. Docs man systemd sysv generator8. Process 3. 86. 7 Exec. Stopetcinit. dtftpd hpa stop codeexited, status0SUCCE. Process 3. 87. 9 Exec. Startetcinit. dtftpd hpa start codeexited, status0SUC. Belt Cp V2 Simulator more. Memory 1. 52. 0. K. CGroup system. Aug 0. Stopped LSB HPAs tftp server. Aug 0. 8 1. 4 4. Starting LSB HPAs tftp server. Aug 0. 8 1. 4 4. Starting HPAs tftpd in. Aug 0. 8 1. 4 4. Aug 0. Started LSB HPAs tftp server. As you see in the above output, tftp service is running. Copying Ubuntu Installation files to the PXE Server. The configuration part is over. Next we need to copy the installation files to the PXE server. Mount the Ubuntu installation ISO that you want to deploy on the client systems. Or, If you have installation DVD, copy all contents of the media to the PXE server. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are going to deploy Ubuntu 1. LTS 6. 4 bit version in our PXE clients. To do so, mount the Ubuntu 1. ISO in any location of your choice. I am going to mount it on mnt directory. Now, go to the location where you mounted the mnt in our case and copy the bootable installation files to varlibtftpboot directory of our PXE server. We have copied all necessary bootable files. Next create a directory called ubuntu in the apache root document folder. Now, copy all the files from the Ubuntu ISO using command sudo cp fr mnt varwwwhtmlubuntuNext edit varlibtftpbootpxelinux. Add the following contents at the end depending upon the distribution architecture you use. Here 1. 92. 1. 68. PXE servers IP address. Replace this IP address with your pxe servers address. For 3. 2bit PXE clients, you need to add the following lines. Again, replace the IP address with your own. Save and close the file. Configuring DHCP Server settings. Go to your DHCP server and do the following changes. Remember I use the same server for PXE and DHCP server. Edit etcdhcpdhcpd. Add the following lines at the end allow booting. Replace the IP address with your own. Save and close the file. Restart DHCP server to take effect the changes. If you have come this far, congratulations Your PXE server is ready to use. Install OS on PXE clients. It is time to deploy OS on pxe clients. Make sure you have enabled PXE boot option in your client systems BIOS settings. For the demo purpose, I will show you how to deploy OS on pxe client in Virtualbox. You can use either physical system or virtual machine. Open Oracle Virtual. Box, and Click New to create a guest machine. Enter the Virtual machine name and select architecture. Specify the virtual machines RAM size. Select Create a virtual hard drive now to create hard disk for our virtual machine. Select the type of file that you would like to use for the new virtual hard disk. Choose whether the new virtual hard drive file should grow as it is used or if it should be created as fixed size. Enter the name of the virtual hard disk file and specify the size of the virtual hard disk. Our Virtual Client machine has been created now. Next, go to the newly created virtual machines settings and chnage the boot order. To do so, select the virtual machine and click Settings icon on the menu bar. From the System tab, choose Network as first boot device. Next, click Network tab on the left, and select Bridged Adapter from the Attached to drop down box. Finally, click OK and start the virtual machine. Thats it. Start installing Ubuntu in your pxe client just like you do in the normal system. Conclusion. I hope this guide will give a basic idea about what is PXE server, how to install and configure it in a local area network, and how to deploy OS on the PXE clients. For your information, I have covered only the basic part. PXE server is vast topic. We cant cover all details in a single tutorial. Also, I have only tested Ubuntu PXE client. As you might know, using a single PXE server, we can deploy different flavours of Linux distros. I will write about multi distribution deployment using a single PXE server in the days to come. Thats all for today. I will be here soon with another interesting article. Until then, stay tuned with OSTech.