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# tftpboot
1. [Overview](#overview)
2. [Description](#description)
* [PXE files](#pxe-files)
* [Configuration files](#configuration-files)
* [Preseed](#preseed)
* [Scripts](#scripts)
3. [How to use it](#how-to-use-it)
4. [TODO](#todo)
## Overview
All needed files to set up a PXE servers.
## Description
### PXE files
Use some bootloaders files provide by:
* `pxelinux` debian package:
* gpxelinux.0
* pxelinux.0
* `syslinux-common` debian package:
* chain.c32
* menu.c32
* reboot.c32
* vesamenu.c32
### Configuration files
### Preseed
### Scripts
See the [scripts's README.md][scripts readme.md] file for more informations.
## How to use it
* Put the data of this repository on the PXE server:
* Clone the repository with https URL or with SSH to **/var/lib/tftpboot**.
* Download the last archive: `wget https://git.ipr.univ-rennes1.fr/cellinfo/tftpboot/archive/master.tar.gz`
* Install a TFTP server (`tftpd-hpa` package for Debian's based systems or `tftp-server` for Redhat's based systems).
* Start the tftpd's service:
* `sudo service tftpd-hpa start`
* `sudo systemctl start tftpd-hpa`
* You can test if the TFTP server provide the files with a TFTP client (`tftp-hpa`) by downloading a file with the command:
* `tftp $IP.SRV.TFTP -c get README.md /tmp/README.md_from_tftpd_server`
## TODO
* Add a tiny preseed file that could be load for a manual install.
[scripts readme.md]: https://git.ipr.univ-rennes1.fr/cellinfo/tftpboot/src/master/scripts "scripts's README.md for tftpboot"