Many of us have experienced the pain that is a Raspberry Pi with a corrupted SD card. I suspect the erase-on-write nature of flash memory is responsible for much of the problem. Regardless of the ...

If when you perform the PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) boot on a Surface Laptop by pressing the power and volume-down buttons, the Windows logo may flash, but the PXE boot attempt fails, then ...

VMware Workstation can perform a PXE boot over the local network, as version 4.5. PXE stands for "Pre-boot eXecution Environment" and is a standard developed by Intel to allow a device with PXE ...

One of the aspects of home lab life is that you're constantly reinstalling devices or virtual machines. It gets annoying after a while, which is partly why my home lab server also has copies of the ...

It's funny how automation evolves as system administrators manage larger numbers of servers. When you manage only a few servers, it's fine to pop in an install CD and set options manually. As the ...

In this article, I've decided to follow up on a topic I wrote about not in my column directly, but as a feature article called "PXE Magic" in the April 2008 issue. In that article, I talk about how to ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps for enabling PXE boot for virtual machines in VirtualBox. PXE stands for Preboot Execution Environment and is a client-server interface that makes it possible ...