User = root: The TFTP server will be run as the root user. There are four important things configured here: We want to add the following to our file: service tftp Then, we can edit this file in our favourite text editor (I prefer nano). To configure our TFTP server, we’re going to create a configuration file at /etc/xinetd.d/tftp. We can do this by means of a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) server.
#TFTP SERVER CENTOS 7 INSTALL#
In order to install software on a remote host, we need to deliver some bootfiles to be executed on the remote host. # yum -y install tftp tftp-server syslinux xinetd httpd wget Make sure that you’ve updated yum’s package catalog before you start. This step is pretty simple: we just need to install a few packages using yum. In addition, I will also be doing this entire process as the root user, and configuring this server to deliver CentOS 7 Minimal. This guide also assumes that you already have a DHCP server configured and enabled on your network (as was the case in my environment). For the purposes of this guide, I’m going to assume you have a clean CentOS 7 install, with SELinux and firewalld enabled. In this guide, I’ll be detailing how you can set up a PXE server to serve BIOS-based clients on CentOS 7. This is a pretty popular mechanism for setting up hosts, because it scales quite well and, if done properly, can be done remotely. PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) is a means to completely install an Operating System on a host via the network, without the need for DVDs or install USBs.