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Installing Arch Linux from a Windows based PXE server

  1. Download the latest Arch Linux install image
  2. Download TFTP server
  3. Extract image iso

(\ == extracted iso root folder)

  1. Copy \boot\isolinux\pxelinux.0 to \
  2. mkdir \pxelinux.cfg
  3. Copy \boot\isolinux\pxelinux.0 to \pxelinux.cfg\default
  4. Copy \boot\isolinux\vesamenu.c32 to \
  5. Launch TFTP and fill out network settings
  6. Set current directory to extracted iso directory
  7. Use pxelinux.0 as boot file
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