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How to set up a Mac as a PXE boot server, with Debian Live
Authored by: drudus on Jun 28, '13 08:56:35AM

I didn't see this mentioned so try to avoid having two devices running DHCP on one network, otherwise you may find the client doesn't pick up the server & PXE boot fails (or worse things happen).

Personally I find this Mac PXE boot server somewhat involved, on Debian it's simpler to use dnsmasq. Skip to the using dnsmaq section…
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478

You can run it from a USB stick if you want to keep the Mac setup on OS X.

Good work getting this running on OS X.



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How to set up a Mac as a PXE boot server, with Debian Live
Authored by: sr105 on Jun 28, '13 01:02:45PM

The nice part of the pure OSX approach is that you only have to set it up once. You can even effectively turn it off (well, the bootp part, at least) by changing your Network Preferences for the Ethernet port. I have a Network Location saved for just this purpose. Like I said in my other comment, if the network set for the Ethernet port doesn't match, the bootp server doesn't respond to incoming requests.

I suppose you could "turn off" the nfs and tftp by adding firewall rules only allowing connections from the configured network address range.



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