NETBOOT Alpine Linux using Alpine Linux! PXE Boot Server Setup

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• Hello, I have a question:
  Can I rent a dedicated server and boot the alpine Linux OS from home, using netboot?

• im on alpine now apk is ffin fasst

• Hello brother,u did a very good job,but got stuck in making pxe boot over http in clonezilla as it supports both tftp & http,As of now in ubuntu i made pxe boot on tftp but it takes a lot of time i want to make it over http please respond & help me

• This is quite great. I wonder if you may also share the proxmox backup of this lxc ? That can be quite handy and fully working directly 😉

• How would I go about, instead of downloading the image everytime I start the machine from the defined repo, I would make it available on the netboot server and get it from there – 18:55 is what Im talking about

• You confuse me. You do the git hub and the scripting, but then you use nano and opensense.

• Watching your videos is like taking a sip from a fire hydrant! I am in awe of your knowledge.

  But keep em' coming, if I watch enough of them I'm sure I will eventually be able to follow it all!!! 😮

• 14:23 you said that tftp is running as root and chroot’d under /var/tftpboot. I haven’t tested this, but if it can mount /proc, I believe it can also do something like “chroot /proc/1/root” to escape the chroot?

• riny nitpick here, but i'm pretty sure that alpine install came with Vi out of the box. no "need" to install nano. I found alpine a few months back and it feels a lot like gentoo from the mid 00's, super small, super fast, nice and small and customizable.

• hi im getting stuck at building ipxe. this the error im getting

  " [BUILD] bin-i386-pcbios/gdbserial.o
  [BUILD] bin-i386-pcbios/gdbstub.o
  [BUILD] bin-i386-pcbios/gdbudp.o
  In file included from include/string.h:23,
  from core/gdbudp.c:27:
  In function '__constant_memcpy',
  inlined from 'memcpy' at arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:168:10,
  inlined from 'gdbudp_send' at core/gdbudp.c:206:2,
  inlined from 'gdbudp_send' at core/gdbudp.c:163:13:
  arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:94:44: error: array subscript 'const union <anonymous>[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'uint8_t[6]' {aka 'unsigned char[6]'} [-Werror=array-bounds]
  94 | dest_u->u32[0] = src_u->u32[0];
  | ~~~~~~~~~~^~~
  core/gdbudp.c: In function 'gdbudp_send':
  core/gdbudp.c:53:16: note: object 'dest_eth' of size 6
  53 | static uint8_t dest_eth[ETH_ALEN];
  | ^~~~~~~~
  In function '__constant_memcpy',
  inlined from 'memcpy' at arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:168:10,
  inlined from 'gdbudp_send' at core/gdbudp.c:206:2,
  inlined from 'gdbudp_send' at core/gdbudp.c:163:13:
  arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:95:44: error: array subscript 'const union <anonymous>[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'uint8_t[6]' {aka 'unsigned char[6]'} [-Werror=array-bounds]
  95 | dest_u->u16[2] = src_u->u16[2];
  | ~~~~~~~~~~^~~
  core/gdbudp.c: In function 'gdbudp_send':
  core/gdbudp.c:53:16: note: object 'dest_eth' of size 6
  53 | static uint8_t dest_eth[ETH_ALEN];
  | ^~~~~~~~
  In function '__constant_memcpy',
  inlined from 'memcpy' at arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:168:10,
  inlined from 'gdbudp_recv' at core/gdbudp.c:137:4:
  arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:94:32: error: array subscript 'union <anonymous>[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'uint8_t[6]' {aka 'unsigned char[6]'} [-Werror=array-bounds]
  94 | dest_u->u32[0] = src_u->u32[0];
  | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  core/gdbudp.c: In function 'gdbudp_recv':
  core/gdbudp.c:53:16: note: object 'dest_eth' of size 6
  53 | static uint8_t dest_eth[ETH_ALEN];
  | ^~~~~~~~
  In function '__constant_memcpy',
  inlined from 'memcpy' at arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:168:10,
  inlined from 'gdbudp_recv' at core/gdbudp.c:137:4:
  arch/x86/include/bits/string.h:95:32: error: array subscript 'union <anonymous>[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'uint8_t[6]' {aka 'unsigned char[6]'} [-Werror=array-bounds]
  95 | dest_u->u16[2] = src_u->u16[2];
  | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  core/gdbudp.c: In function 'gdbudp_recv':
  core/gdbudp.c:53:16: note: object 'dest_eth' of size 6
  53 | static uint8_t dest_eth[ETH_ALEN];
  | ^~~~~~~~
  cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
  make: * [Makefile.housekeeping:952: bin-i386-pcbios/gdbudp.o] Error 1"

  any help is appreciated

• it a good video tutorial but i got problem.. when netbooting i got error message wget: server returned error http/1.1 404 not found how to solve this problem thank you…

• wouldn't be more performant if we install all the stuff we need in a thin vm…
  then collect all the installed stuff into a initrd/initramfs file (makecpio/dracut)…

  in the ipxe boot process push this into memory (from the ipxe script,,,)
  and launch vmlinuz against this memory image…

• This channel is so underrated

• Noice, now we're talking 😎 I look forward to further adventuring into the world of network-booted appliances and infrastructure.

• Did I mention I love this channel

• a 'net booted' Pi 4 with PiMox images/openwrt/21.02/arm64/default/20220427_11:58 lxd files for a fun tutorial

• its a shame you dont walk us through a build of the arm variant included as pimox works fine as an arm clustered node https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1FXZIvVkq4 Installing Proxmox 7 on Raspberry Pi 4 with PiMox.
  
  a generic Debian 'slax' of liveCD/USB variant fame would also be good too if only someone would port/write the script to make a fresh arm 'pi slax' build on demand well worth advocating your channel far & wide for that ^_~

• Sir i would like to create a remmina kiosk..
  I searched a lot but reached any where.
  Please can you help me?

• Can iPXE be used to image custom windows 10 images? Like an image with already installed applications? Or will batch scripts always have to be used post install?

• Some 64bit system have 32bit efi. Example Linx7 tablet.

• +1

• Really cool to see you taking this to the next level, I'll definitely be looking out for your next video to get all the details for getting this set up!

• Eu tenho um sistema assim utilizando o LTSP com debian e os terminais com raspberry’s

• My question is are you installing the OS on the disks that are on each thin client, or running a diskless boot?

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