diff --git a/pxe/.env.example b/pxe/.env.example
index 7f9b806..04a6817 100644
--- a/pxe/.env.example
+++ b/pxe/.env.example
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 server_ip=192.168.1.2
 nfs_allowed_lan=192.168.1.0/24
 tftp_path='/srv/pxe-tftp'
-nfs_path='/srv/pxe-images'
+nfs_images_path='/srv/pxe-images'
+nfs_wbdata_path='/srv/workbench-data'
diff --git a/pxe/install-pxe.sh b/pxe/install-pxe.sh
index 332ba55..deb8ea9 100755
--- a/pxe/install-pxe.sh
+++ b/pxe/install-pxe.sh
@@ -24,10 +24,21 @@ backup_file() {
 install_nfs() {
         backup_file /etc/exports
         cat > /etc/exports <<END
-${nfs_path} ${nfs_allowed_lan}(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
+${nfs_images_path} ${nfs_allowed_lan}(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
+${nfs_wbdata_path} ${nfs_allowed_lan}(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
 END
         # append live directory, which is expected by the debian live env
-        mkdir -p "${nfs_path}/live"
+        mkdir -p "${nfs_images_path}/live"
+        mkdir -p "${nfs_wbdata_path}/snapshots"
+
+        if [ ! -f "${nfs_wbdata_path}/settings.ini" ]; then
+                if [ -f "../settings.ini" ]; then
+                        cp -v ../settings.ini "${nfs_wbdata_path}/settings/settings.ini"
+                else
+                        echo "ERROR: ../settings.ini does not exist yet, cannot read config from there. You can take inspiration with file ../settings.ini.example"
+                        exit 1
+                fi
+        fi
 }
 
 install_tftp() {
@@ -71,13 +82,12 @@ default wb
 label wb
         KERNEL vmlinuz
         INITRD initrd.img
-        APPEND ip=dhcp netboot=nfs nfsroot=${server_ip}:${nfs_path}/ boot=live text forcepae
+        APPEND ip=dhcp netboot=nfs nfsroot=${server_ip}:${nfs_images_path}/ boot=live text forcepae
 END
         fi
 }
 
 init_config() {
-
         # get where the script is
         cd "$(dirname "${0}")"
 
@@ -89,7 +99,8 @@ init_config() {
         VERSION_CODENAME="${VERSION_CODENAME:-bookworm}"
         tftp_path="${tftp_path:-/srv/pxe-tftp}"
         server_ip="${server_ip}"
-        nfs_path="${nfs_path:-/srv/pxe-images}"
+        nfs_images_path="${nfs_images_path:-/srv/pxe-images}"
+        nfs_wbdata_path="${nfs_wbdata_path:-/srv/pxe-wbdata}"
 }
 
 main() {