#UltimateHomeServer: Setting Up Netboot on your Raspberry Pi

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• Could you guys potentially create a walk through using unraid? I'm having some issues trying to get it to work. I'm using a CIFS share because I had issues with NFS from unraid, but I think I will try again with nfs

• Dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just found this channel looking for 100G network cards. Saw a bunch of really simplified and accessible concept explained in that video and clicked on this one. That's it I am subscribing. I've spent too much time around large scaled data centers that I no longer know how to even make up cheap and easy solutions. Now that I bought a house and get the grind to bring a bunch of home automation, I am finding out how insanely expensive it is to have automated HVAC or humidity tuned.

• The audio jack on the raspberry pi is unusable, it has horrible current noise, it’s very audible, I’ve tried that eventually I connected JBL Pebbles because it come with USB DAC.

• Thank you for the article. On a side note, you sound like neil degrasse tyson.

• Jesus…. Almost 9 minutes had passed when he almost started to do it. 😂

  Even he says: "But this is not the purpose of this video" like 3 times.

  Focus dude.

  FFS.

• Too bad it’s not possible to have an encrypted / secure connection.. afaik it’s just straight up dump UDP with our ssl/tls

• You can not get to further a due if you like. 😊

• Too much steps… It is easier to get sd-card, insert it into sd-card reader and clone prepared partition into it, then plug it back and turn it ON. That's it…

• I can write bash scripts!

• "I assume if you're doing this with raw linux, you know what you're doing" Well, I actually came here to learn more about it; and through trial and error, figure out what crosses over. Anything I lookup just yields results for PXE installation of linux, but not how to have a remote boot image that loads into, say, a ram-disk. I'm not a linux noob, but more familiar with windows on the IT side. Any suggestions?

• 17:29 For me the deal breaker was when he said NFS is slower than booting from the SD card. I mean, it is great for centralized management but penalizing speed on a device that small is a no go. Also having a NFS folder there accessible for hackers to audit is a consideration if you were planning on deploying a ton of Pi to strangers.

• The first six minutes of this video can be skipped.

• The question I would have is can you get a tos link or hdmi for higher sound quality output

• Raspberry Pi 4's are capable of booting via HTTP. It uses this to boot the Pi Imager (set BOOT_ORDER to 0xf71). What would be nice is to HTTP boot a mini boot image that then would mount your nfs mountpoint. This would avoid any dhcp/tftp mucking about.

  I just can't figure out how to create that initial kernel image. Hmph. Stil WIP.

• My mind has been blown: I always said f-stab, never even considered FS Tab.

• 6:05 (30% of the way into this video, quote: "first step is…." Sheesh, i understand the need for income, but that's a lot of overhead!

• It is to tiny to watch,zoom on interface

• sonos is simply superior. moodeos + decent pi dac + low noise power supply + bookshelf speakers can get better audio but sonos has room correction + better streaming and can also do stereo all while looking clean and elegant. Besides pi's have always had a supply chain problem akin to GPU's so my 3B+ is sitting at the office with usb dac + power amplifier + two speakers until i decide there is a worthy portable usecase.

• I wonder… if we had many Pi and most of them were running the same OS, I wonder if it would be worth setting up dedup as many pis could take up a lot of space.

  also oddity my network boot screen (without SD card) looks like the raspi imager … says its trying to boot from the network. …. and, we have lift off (forgot to start the TFTP service in truenas scale)

• Holy hell, it's so nice to be a nerd.
  engagement

• Looking forward to working on this project. Today I run 5 pi4s with Ubuntu 20.0lts running a service on each pi, services include asterisk, 2xpiholes, homebridge and home assistant. I run a number of vlans and dhcp is handled by my draytek device. I already advertise option 66 for booting my Cisco 7962 phones. At the moment all the pis backup via nfs to a Synology nas. Network booting sounds like the ideal, centralise the file systems and push out the processing.

  I am wondering if I have my warm standby pis if I could dhcp assign each pi to a pool of addresses that can access the nfs area, then boot using a configured static IP address set in the root for each system, that way if I pi failed I would only need to rename the boot folder to the serial # of the replacement pi. And not have to mess about changing the dhcp config so the new pis MAC address linked to the old pis IP address.

  I will have to see if the boot progresses will stand having his IP address change mid PXE boot.

• I was worried you were about to say Apple's software was amazing. 'Uhhh, very cohesive' is a perfect description.

• I miss teksyndicate so much with all 4 of you guys. You Pistol Logan and Quan. It's never been the same. Both channels aren't half as good as the original.

• ostree looks like it would work really well with this

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