11/12/2023 0 Comments Mac tftp server gui![]() ![]() I install my machines in closed environments that do not tie to the outside world so I needed a DHCP server. ![]() If you have an external DHCP server, TFTP will listen to that server for its configuration. To put together a PXE boot server, i needed the following items in place. Now, since 2009, Apple has been dumbing down the capabilities of OSX and recently launched a separate package that can be installed on top of OSX to give you GUI access to the tools that I was using. But Since OSX is based off unix and has everything to put together a PXE boot server, I decided to use that instead. I run Parrells so it would have been a fairly trivial to quickly put together a CentOS (my favorite OS second to OSX) VM and used that to be my PXE boot server. Now my primary laptop is a 15″ mac book pro with SSD, a very fast machine that I am pleased with. ![]() In my quest to reduce time to install OS, I decided to install a PXE boot server. I had to install a 10 node Rocks HPC cluster three weeks ago and this week I am working on a 20 node Eucalyptus cluster. I have found myself doing a lot of Linux installs recently. ![]()
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