The steps below summarize the information found in the "Provision Red Hat or CentOS" tutorial:

1) Prepare your Linux ISO media

Copy your Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS 5 ISO to /home/tftpboot/ISOs/linux. Next, prepare your ISO file:

cd /home/tftpboot/bin

perl loadlinux.pl                   (then select your Linux distro)

2) Use the GUI to Create a Provisioning Role:

•Open Firefox (the only supported browser) and go to <your Provisioner PXE Server's IP address>/tftpboot (e.g., 192.168.0.243/tftpboot)

•Login using the default User Name "admin" and Password “admin”

•Click “MAC-Independent Provisioning”, click “Add a System Role” (Red Hat type) and select from the drop-down Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS) 5.5 i386, then click “OK”

•You now see the Red Hat (or CentOS) MAC-Independent Role that you created.

•Click “Enable MAC-Independent Provisioning”

3) Power on the system you want to provision

•Hit F12 to force a network boot and you will see the message “Welcome to the Provisioner PXE Server”

•Press “1” (to select the role you created) and press the Enter key.  Your system will be provisioned automatically. The default password at installation time for client systems is “unsecure”.

If you ran into a problem, please review our Troubleshooting the Client topic.

Next steps: review this User’s Guide and start using MAC-Specific provisioning and disk imaging.

The steps below summarize the information found in the "Provision Windows Server 2012 & 2008 and Windows 8 & 7" tutorial:

1) Prepare your Windows ISO media and create an “Installation Instance”

Copy your Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 ISO to /home/tftpboot/ISOs/windows/win7_2008/ or your Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 ISO to /home/tftpboot/ISOs/windows/win8_2012/.

cd /home/tftpboot/bin

sh windows-create-install-instance.sh       (answer questions to prepare the media and create your Install Instance)

2) Use the GUI to Create a Provisioning Role:

•Open Firefox (the only supported browser) and go to <your Provisioner PXE Server's IP address>/tftpboot (e.g., 192.168.0.243/tftpboot)

•Login using the default User Name "admin" and Password “admin”

•Click “MAC-Independent Provisioning”, click “Add a System Role” (Windows type) and select from the drop-down Windows Server 2008 R2 (if that is the Install Instance you created), then click “OK”

•You now see the Windows MAC-Independent Role that you created

•Click “Enable MAC-Independent Provisioning”

Power on the system you want to provision

•Hit F12 to force a network boot and you will see the message “Welcome to the Provisioner PXE Server”

•Press “1” (to select the role you created) and press the Enter key.  Your system will be provisioned automatically. The default password at installation time for client systems is “unsecure”.

If you ran into a problem, please review our Troubleshooting the Client topic.

Next steps: review this User’s Guide and start using MAC-Specific provisioning and disk imaging.

The steps below summarize the information found in the "Imaging" tutorial:

Before you begin, make sure that the system you image has been backed up by other means.

1) Use the GUI to Create an Imaging Profile:

•Open Firefox (the only supported browser) and go to <your Provisioner PXE Server's IP address>/tftpboot (e.g., 192.168.0.243/tftpboot)

•Login using the default User Name "admin" and Password “admin”

2) Create an Imaging Profile

•Click “MAC-Specific Imaging”, click “Add MAC-Specific Profile”

•Enter a Unique Profile Name (e.g., server213)

•Enter the MAC address for the client system you will image (format is 00:11:22:33:44:55)

•Enter a directory name (e.g. server213_windows_test)

•Enter the drive type (hint: most hardware uses SATA drives, so enter “sda”)

•Click “OK”

3) Set the Imaging Profile to "Backup"

•On the “MAC-Specific Imaging” page, select the system you created the profile for and click the button with the green check mark (and notice the text “Backup” appear)

4) Power on the system you want to image

•Hit F12 to force a network boot and you will see the message “Automatic imaging in progress ”

•When the imaging is complete, your system will reboot

5) Perform a "Restore":

•Change the contents of the system you just backed up (add/remove icons on the desktop, or rename/copy directories) so you can easily notice when you roll your system back to the image you just created

•On the “MAC-Specific Imaging” page, select the system you created the profile for and click the button with the yellow triangle (and notice the text “Restore” appear)

•Power up your client system as directed above. When your system reboots, it will have restored the image you backed up a few minutes earlier

•You have now successfully used imaging!

If you ran into a problem, please review our Troubleshooting the Client topic.