In this article, let us discuss about how to setup tftpboot, including installation of necessary packages, and tftpboot configurations.
TFTP boot service is primarily used to perform OS installation on a remote machine for which you don’t have the physical access. In order to perform the OS installation successfully, there should be a way to reboot the remote server — either using wakeonlan or someone manually rebooting it or some other ways.
In those scenarios, you can setup the tftpboot services accordingly and the OS installation can be done remotely (you need to have the autoyast configuration file to automate the OS installation steps).
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