PXE/DHCP boot server

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kanishk619

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Well, there are 8 pc's on my network which needs to get OS re-installed in once a week, what I m currently doing is that i made backup of a single hdd using Ghost and then restore it on every other hdd's, but for doing this i have to remove hdd's and have to plug them to my PC for restore which is so much hassle .

So what i m looking is if i can make a PXE/DHCP boot server things can become easy. Can anyone help me out or provide a good tutorial from scratch.
 
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Well, there are 8 pc's on my network which needs to get OS re-installed in once a week, what I m currently doing is that i made backup of a single hdd using Ghost and then restore it on every other hdd's, but for doing this i have to remove hdd's and have to plug them to my PC for restore which is so much hassle .

So what i m looking is if i can make a PXE/DHCP boot server things can become easy. Can anyone help me out or provide a good tutorial from scratch.
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I had seen something similar done by IT for my PC while installing Win7, pretty interesting, Bladelogic was the name of the suite.

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thanks for all ya replies, trying out the above links and will report here

here is the tftpd log

Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [24/08 20:17:13.044]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.2 [24/08 20:17:16.157]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.3 [24/08 20:17:16.157]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.4 [24/08 20:17:19.269]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.5 [24/08 20:17:19.271]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.6 [24/08 20:17:22.383]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.7 [24/08 20:17:22.385]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.8 [24/08 20:17:25.497]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.9 [24/08 20:17:28.610]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.10 [24/08 20:17:31.724]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.11 [24/08 20:17:34.837]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.12 [24/08 20:17:37.950]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.13 [24/08 20:17:41.064]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.14 [24/08 20:17:44.178]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.15 [24/08 20:17:47.292]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.16 [24/08 20:17:50.407]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.17 [24/08 20:17:53.522]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.18 [24/08 20:17:56.637]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.19 [24/08 20:17:59.752]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.20 [24/08 20:18:02.867]

Suppress pingable address 10.0.0.21 [24/08 20:18:05.983]

no more address or address previously allocated by another server [24/08 20:18:05.985]

Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [24/08 20:18:06.035]

no more address or address previously allocated by another server [24/08 20:18:06.035]

Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [24/08 20:18:06.085]

no more address or address previously allocated by another server [24/08 20:18:06.085]

Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [24/08 20:18:06.135]

no more address or address previously allocated by another server [24/08 20:18:06.135]

Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [24/08 20:18:06.185]

no more address or address previously allocated by another server [24/08 20:18:06.185]

Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [24/08 20:18:15.143]

no more address or address previously allocated by another server [24/08 20:18:15.143]
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none of them ghost guides worked :(, however i m able to boot win98 dos through tftpd32 :P,

then i just came to know that one of my friend works in acronis, purchased a licence for acronis snap deploy and there it works like a charm, setting up the server is soo damn easy, backed up the network pc in just 15min and restored the backup on network pc's in just 8min, no special trick required or custom made boot disks, just setup the server and boot network pc with PXE :D
 
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