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  1. I also just installed the netboot.xyz CA and after making the router changes in my pfsense router as listed in the 'router setup examples' found at https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/netbootxyz I was able to PXE Boot from a couple of machines (a thinclient and a couple of laptops) for testing (booted a live image and a couple utility images). @Evilfrog as Xannor advised you will need to make the equivalent changes for your specific router/DHCP Server before you can network boot. I wanted to try the Windows Installer option also, however when selecting the 'Windows' option after PXE Booting into the menu and selecting 'Load Microsoft Windows Installer...' it did not download and boot an installer like the other boot options I had tried but rather shows 'URL not set...'. It appears you have to have a Windows ISO extracted and shared via a HTTP server and then specify the 'Base URL' of the extracted ISO. I installed the H5AI CA on Unraid which "makes it trivially easy to spin up a webserver and start sharing your files through the web." and pointed it at my isos folder/share on Unraid as I had originally hoped to use a Windows ISO directly using similar commands to that below in the IPXE Shell but without success: initrd http://192.168.1.10/win10ent.iso chain http://192.168.1.10/memdisk iso raw || goto failed I did however eventually manage to boot into a Windows 10 Installer based on instructions found at https://ipxe.org/wimboot and extracting the relevant files (not the whole ISO) into the H5AI Webshare (my isos folder). I extracted mine into /mnt/user/isos/win/x64 (seems you have to have it within the specific architecture folder i.e. x64 in my case or it does not work). I was then able to specify the 'Base URL' once I at PXE Booted and gone into 'Windows'. H5AI uses port 8888 so I had to specify http://x.x.x.x:8888/win as the 'Base URL (no / after win and don't include the x64). I haven't actually installed a machine from it yet. Unfortunately it seems you have to specify the 'Base URL' every time you PXE Boot though and I have been unable to find a way to set it as the default so any machine that boots gets the 'Base URL' by default. Not sure if anyone knows how to do this or even if it is possible?