• https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/net_tutorial.md#
• http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/pxe_boot_stb-howto.html
• https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro

sudo aptitude install atftpd dhcp3-server

• Starting DHCP server dhcpd3 * check syslog for diagnostics.

[fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript dhcp3-server, action “start” failed.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/38221

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=4669

diff -r 7c79026b06f9 dhcp3/dhcpd.conf
--- a/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf  Fri Mar 13 15:03:48 2009 +0100
+++ b/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf  Fri Mar 13 15:08:53 2009 +0100
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
 # No service will be given on this subnet, but declaring it helps the
 # DHCP server to understand the network topology.

-#subnet 10.152.187.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
-#}
+subnet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 {
+}

 # This is a very basic subnet declaration.

  allow booting;
  allow bootp;
  option routers [gateway address];
  option subnet-mask [subnet mask];
  option domain name [domain name];
  option domain-name-servers [list of dns servers];
  default-lease-time 21600;
  max-lease-time 43200;

  group {
  	next-server [ip or hostname of tftp server];
  	#This is the pxe bootloader file
	filename "pxelinux.0";
	# One host block per client. This network only has one.
	host stb1 {
		hardware ethernet [MAC address, in format nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn]
		fixed-address [ip address that will be assigned to client]
	}
     	}

PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were recevied.
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM. 

debian

CACHE_DIR_HTTP=${HOME}/mnt/cache/http
url=http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/
cd ${CACHE_DIR_HTTP} && wget -p -c -r --no-parent ${url}
ln -fs ${CACHE_DIR_HTTP}/../${url} /var/lib/tftpboot/
cd /var/lib/tftpboot
d=$(basename -- "$url")
ln -fs netboot/pxelinux.cfg ./
ln -fs netboot/pxelinux.0 ./

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