# Create a new PXE server

> The ways to create a PXE server, depending on the infrastructure you have available.

Source: https://docs.capaone.com/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/os-deployment/how-to-use-osd/create-a-new-pxe-server/  
Product: CapaInstaller — a separate CapaSystems product; do not apply this page to any other.

# Introduction

The following is a description of how to create a PXE server. This can be done in several ways. Depending on the infrastructure provided and the availability and placement of DHCP servers, you can choose between a number of scenarios when building DHCP/PXE environments.

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| **Environment**                            | **Description**                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| One DHCP, one PXE                          | This is the simple model where the DHCP doubles as the PXE server or simply refers to the PXE server by using 66.                                                                                                                     |
| Many DHCPs, one PXE                        | All DHCP servers point to the IP of the PXE server. OSD will automatically use the server address provided by DHCP.                                                                                                                   |
| One DHCP, many PXEs                        | When you use one PXE server from different DHCP servers or scopes, option 66 is used to refer the client to the server.                                                                                                               |
| Select the PXE server manually from a list | If you want to manually select from a list of available PXE servers, build a number of copies of boot.wim and add additional menu lines to the cipcc.cfg file. Each boot.wim should point to a specific server name in OSDLoader.ini. |

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| **Step** | **Action**                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 1        | Click *File* menu, click *New* and then *Create PXE Boot server*.                                                                                                                                                        |
| 2        | Fill in all fields.   ![](/attachments/capainstaller/73505444-165a-4fe1-b4ce-64f26a478263.webp)                                                                                                                                |
| 3        | Select the PXE Boot service to use, and specify any additional settings.    ![](/attachments/capainstaller/46042bb2-6181-4d96-99a2-9e5955ff9351.webp)    ![](/attachments/capainstaller/8b4488e0-b2dd-43b1-8093-21bf8c30b8aa.webp) |
| 4        | Specify credentials used to access the SQL Server, this only appears if you selected ciBoot in the previous step.   ![](/attachments/capainstaller/d22a2b47-e9bb-408b-aa9a-9b6d338ef248.webp)                                  |
| 5        | Specify name of the server and the root Deployment Point to connect it to.    ![](/attachments/capainstaller/cb91e02e-69d3-4f82-b4cd-38cd235b93dc.webp)                                                                        |
| 6        | Click Commit on create the new PXE server                                                                                                                                                                                  |

:::tip
For further information about PXE servers, [PXE Servers](/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/os-deployment/what-is-os-deployment/pxe-servers/). For information on configuring DHCP to support OSD, [Configuring DHCP to support Legacy OSD](/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/os-deployment/how-to-use-osd/configuring-dhcp-to-support-legacy-osd/).
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