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How to build a boot server

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[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“I will do this for both debian and centos. The last
part of the article will show you how to add more OSes to the
server.

“By the end if this article you will have a boot server that
will provide installation media for :

* Debian (i386 and amd64)
* CentOS 5.3 (i386 and amd64)
* Memtest86+
* DBAN
* Ghost4Unix

“Now lets start.

“You will need to install all the needed packages

Debian : apt-get install dhcp3-server tftpd-hpa
CentOS : yum install tftp-server dhcp”

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