nacat78 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 PXE Boot Server with a webgui interface built-in. Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 You want to be able to boot unRAID itself over PXE? Is that correct? Quote Link to comment
GHunter Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 I think he means having unRAID act as a PXE Boot Server either natively or as some sort of plugin with a webGUI interface to manage it. This could probably be done with docker too although I haven't seen one yet. The idea was most likely from this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31297.0. I've done this myself as outlined in that thread as I do a number of Windows installations and run Memtest86+ and on quite a few machines. I haven't used it since running the unRAID 6 beta's as I want to have a stock configuration during the beta cycle. Quote Link to comment
nacat78 Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 To allow unraid to server as a PXE boot server, so that essentially any machine with PXE boot (about 99% of machines today) can boot into almost any distro of linux or windows. basically allowing diskless machines to run any os when connected to local network Quote Link to comment
PeterB Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I use dnsmasq to handle pxeboot (as a plugin under unRAID V5 and running in an ArchVM on V6 - actually, in V6 I've abandoned use of the dnsmasq tftp server, and installed the standard slackware tftp server). Configuration of dnsmasq not very user-friendly - would it be possible to create a webgui for configuration? Quote Link to comment
josywong Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 might as well consider native web server support for iPXE Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 This is becoming a more and more interesting request. Thank you for the info. Will review this with the team. Quote Link to comment
dcoens Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Been doing some reading and learning on the FOG project (Technically a cloning solution). This could be developed into a docker solution and it would be a PXE server for many PXE served systems. http://www.fogproject.org/ Quote Link to comment
nacat78 Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Been doing some reading and learning on the FOG project (Technically a cloning solution). This could be developed into a docker solution and it would be a PXE server for many PXE served systems. http://www.fogproject.org/ That looks promising, would be willing to test out if someone dockerizes it... Biggest thing is having a web interface to configure menus/settings for network boot for multiple cross-platform images... Quote Link to comment
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