Network Installation Debian 7 Wheezy System Graphic Tutorial

This article will guide you to install Debian 7 Wheezy network directly by using DNSMASQ as a PXE server (pre-boot execution environment). This assumes that your server does not provide any CD/DVD. /USB media drive, or it can only be operated via a connected monitor, keyboard and mouse. Debian 7 network installation
DNSMASQ on

client is a lightweight network infrastructure servers, which can provide critical services such as DNS, DHCP and network boot via the built-in such as DNS, DHCP and TFTP server .
Once the PXE server is up and running, you can instruct all of your clients to boot directly from the network, provided your client has a network card that supports network booting, and network boot can start or start the service from the BIOS network. Enabled in the option.
Step 1: Install and configure the DNSMASQ server
1. First, after installing the Debian server, make sure your system is using a static IP address. Because in addition to network boot, you also need to provide DHCP services for your entire network segment. After setting the static IP address, run the following command as the root account or a user with root authority to install the DNSMASQ server.
# apt-get install dnsmasq


Dnsmasq installation package
2. After installing DNSMASQ package, you can begin to edit the configuration file. First create a backup of the main configuration file, then use the following command to edit the dnsmasq.conf file.
# mv /etc/dnsmasq.conf /etc/dnsmasq.conf.backup