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Before a PC can use MBA for network booting, you must set up a server to provide the PC
with the information it needs.
If there are multiple servers on the network, only one of them needs to be set up for remote
booting. This server must have the following services installed:
BOOTP or DHCP service
TFTP service
The BOOTP or DHCP service provides the PC with its IP address and the name of the image
file to boot. The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) service is used during the transfer of the
boot file to the PC.
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The BOOTP service may be included with the server TCP/IP package; check your
documentation.
If you do not have the service, contact technical support for your operating
system to see if it is available.
The BOOTP service uses a file (normally called BOOTPTAB) which contains information for all
PCs.
This file must contain at least the IP address and boot image file name for each PC.
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A DHCP service may have been provided with your server software. Servers providing this
MBA-compatible service include Sun Solaris, Windows NT Server, OS/2 Warp Server, and
Red Hat Linux.
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The boot image file is transferred to the PC using TFTP. The TFTP service should be included
with your TCP/IP package, but may be disabled; see your TCP/IP documentation for
information.
When setting up TFTP you should create a directory for all of the image files. The suggested
directory name is TFTPBOOT.
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Before you can use MBA in a PC, you must first create a regular boot diskette, the same as
you would if you were to boot from that PC's floppy drive.
The next step involves taking a snapshot of the boot diskette, capturing its contents and
creating an image file that will reside on the file server's hard disk.