The display adapter (your graphics card) needs to support the vesa mode and a resolution of at least 640x480 pixels. The menu can intuitively be used and offers lots of options. The PXE image will load the current release information from the servers and display the menu as shown in the screenshot on the right. A DHCP server on your network that gives your machine a lease (an IP address), a gateway and a valid DNS server.Īfter you burned the image on a CD, installed it on an USB stick or a TFTP server, you can now boot and will see the system getting an address from the DHCP server.Configure 'next-server' and 'filename' (with the web interface) in the DHCP configuration menu where 'next-server' is the IP address (not FQDN) of your IPFire box and the 'filename' is 'undionly.kpxe'.Īll 3 possibilities require some prerequisites:.Install a TFTP server (pakfire install tftpd) and copy that image to /var/tftpboot.To boot from this image, two steps are required (using another IPFire box): Boot the system and go to the boot menu.You can jump into the IPFire system as follows: Various computers now come with a comfortable BIOS that has a PXE feature. Several options, depending on your personal environment and hardware, are available. To use this feature you have to prepare your PXE boot environment. Always the latest version and optional older versions.PXE is a way to solve this problem and offers a load of features as well: If you found it -and its an actual version- its scratched, broken or in any other way unreadable.

If you need to (re-)install OSses (like IPFire) often its always the same: you have a bunch of CDs laying around, but definitely not the one needed. PXE is a very easy way to boot IPFire and install it. Install IPFire by booting from the network

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