Configure a PXE boot server

- [Instructor] PXE, or Preboot eXecution Environment,…allows a system to boot using a software environment…provided over the network rather than…from a disc attached to the local system.…This kind of booting environment is used widely…for installation, deployment, and remote booting…in labs and data centers.…PXE relies on DHCP, or dynamic host configuration protocol,…and TFTP, trivial file transfer protocol, in order to work.…DHCP provides an initial IP address for the system…and tells the client where to find the TFTP server…that hosts executable operating system images.…

TFTP is a bare-bones no frills file server…that's commonly used in many different applications,…ranging from network booting to hosting other software…for the purpose of updating device firmware.…Let's configure our server to act as a PXE boot server.…We already have a DHCP server set up,…so we'll add a few more things to make…a complete PXE boot solution.…We'll install and configure a TFTP,…and then we'll copy some bootable files from an installer.…