Windows Server 2012 WDS – Booting Linux Systems

PXE sounds a bit late to me. I'd rather configure the DHCP server to give those windows systems their boot server and not the linux TFTP server: http://tspycher.com/booting-into-wds-windows-deployment-service-from-linux-dhcpd/

Alright. The problem is solved.

Here is what I did: I switched off my ESX.

I started it again: DHCP started I tried the PXE install, got the 4011 error. Double-checked if my WDS is running:

WDS failed to start. Why? Because port 67 wass already used.

I opened WDS and then set the "Do not use port 67" option and thats it. Everything worked.

So at the end it was just a simple restart to recognise, that I need to start the DHCP first so it gets assigned the port 67 for sure and that WDS does not care about that.