There are a lot of HowTos in the web talking about PXE boot and how to configure it. But most of them are applied to a particular Linux/Unix distribution or a particular Thin-Client Boot framework.

The goal of this HowTo is to show which components are needed in an PXE boot environment and how they are related to each other. No particular linux distribution and no particular framework.
After this article you will be able to set up a little PXE boot environment in your private (home)network for backup/recovery purpose or just for fun.

This article is not going to explain how to create a “net-bootable” recovery image. This will be discussed in the next article.

Administration dhcp, nfs, PXE, recovery, tftp