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A framework for making thin and light Linux based images for x86 based machines and thinclients.
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DevStation pxe on Ubuntu #728

Closed justthenitguy closed 2 years ago

justthenitguy commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I've installed devstation os and it works fine but i need to match security measures in my compagny so i had to move it, so i installed it on Ubuntu and again work just fine but i can't get the pxe to contact the server.

I didn't need to turn it on for the devstation os, so does the pxe need to be manually activated on ubuntu?

Regards

Thinstation commented 2 years ago

Yes. You will need to stand up all your own services like tftp and http, and point them at the build output directory of your choice.

justthenitguy commented 2 years ago

Ok thanks.

At the end of the compiling when "Making boot image for pxe..." is it possible to change the output to point to a NAS or DFS directly? Because the image will be used for around a thousand laptop maybe more so i need to be sure that the server won't burn all of the sudden

Thinstation commented 2 years ago

Idk. I have never tried. I guess you could mount something at the output branch. Else, just have a post script push everything where you want it.

Thinstation commented 2 years ago

And use the grub output instead of syslinux PXE.

Thinstation commented 2 years ago

Another user setup iPXE, and created a peer booting protocol to avoid network bottlenecks. Very cool.