1. A method of directing a computer network for booting using an embedded operating system (OS) based computer, the method comprising: listening with an embedded OS based computer to PXE requests from a plurality of PXE enabled target servers of a computer network; and providing from the embedded OS based computer to one of the plurality of PXE enabled target servers a netboot program and address information of a boot server from the embedded OS based computer responsive to a PXE request from one of the PXE enabled target servers.