Meet netboot.xyz - Network Boot Any Operating System
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Imagine all of your favorite operating systems in one place, available anywhere on your network, and you'll never need to use your flash drive again. That's the promise of netboot.xyz, a network boot service that lets you install or boot to any operating system simply by booting to the network.
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00:00 - What is netboot.xyz
01:28 - Requirements
01:55 - Installing netboot.xyz with Docker
05:22 - netboot.xyz web UI
08:11 - Configuring Network Boot on Your Router
10:35 - Booting a Machine to the Network (Proxmox VM)
13:28 - First boot into netboot.xyz
14:54 - Live CD Boot to PopOs
16:40 - Booting to K3OS
17:42 - Booting to Utilities (GParted and Rescuezilla)
18:52 - Using netboot.xyz Offline (PopOS)
21:49 - Remember to Cache All Offline Images!
24:03 - Booting Other Operating Systems like Windows
Thank you for watching! - Věda a technologie
The reason I use ventoy at home is only about half my machines support netboot. On the other hand I set up a pxelinux server at work years ago after I got tired of constantly burning CD's or rewriting USB drives. Went from proof of concept to a pretty slick setup that ended up saving time and money. Definitely one of those things I'm happy I got to implement.
This even supports USB Booting to networkboot xyz so the best of both worlds!
@@TechnoTim I agree that's pretty neat but it doesn't really save me anything over using ventoy, always good to have options like this for use at home or really anywhere though.
@@nadtz For sure! I hear you! Use what works best for you, not trying to convince you otherwise! 😄 I love Ventoy, don't get my wrong (have a video on it) but now I never need to worry about missing or old ISOs on my USB disk, it's always up to date using netboot xyz since it's fetched over the internet.
If you know ventoy, why don´t you use iventoy for pxe?!?
I gotta try this ...I mostly use Ventoy myself but I like distro hopping and with this having utilities on board it should make things simple and offer super quick access to the things I use. 🎉
Used it at my old job to manage all of the different versions of the custom ISOs that were delivered by the OS team. It worked great! They still use it today as it allows them to quickly debug new versions while keeping the current production version untouched.
not take off. dead in the water on "Downloading NBP file..." and timeout. "tftp: client does not accept options" on server side
Thank you for the video as always. I've been always wanting to do some sort of PXE boot option within my network but WDS is such a bare. Its always a pleasure noticing that you're into the same sort of ideas as me. Thank you again for your channel. I feel now not alone.
MASSIVE SHOUTOUT for the properly done closed captions! Thank you!
Thank you!!!
I've been trying to get PXE Boot to work for years. This is perfect. Thanks for the video.
I just discovered your video accidentally and man... I can't express in anyway how could your ever helped me more!!! Since Windows 11 did not support WDS anymore, in my work we were kind of having issues to deploy Windows 11 images and now you just presented me a simple and elegant docker container solution that will actually save my life at work... Thanks a LOT!!! Awesome video!
I have tried many times to get standard PXE boot to work on my homelab and usually fail at the point it remounts root as rw. I've only gotten it usable twice, and both times took me absolutely *inordinate* amounts of time (even as far as Linux projects go, aka time sinks). And that's from having over 20 years experience in Linux. These days it's even harder with net + UEFI. So glad the netboot crew gave us this gem!
Great stuff as always! I really appreciate that you have both the video and blog post linked on your videos, and this one was particularly timely for a project I'm doing
Thank you soooo much for covering this. I did learn how to operate this but it took way too long to understand and use it (took 3 months to figure out). Now I have this bookmarked for future reference
Awesome demo and explanation Tim. You just got a new subscriber. Cheers. I now have a project for the upcoming Christmas break. Looking forward to watching the video on the Windows install. Cheers.
I just used this to rapid fix a vm on proxmox that was running through truenas and wouldn't boot from normal methods because of some persimmons issue that I didn't have time to fix. I was up and running within 10 minutes. Thanks Tim, this was a night saver!
i don't think i need this in my homelab but i want to try it. i guess this will be my next homelab project - thanks tim!
Wow !!!!! This is Tera Super Mega Awesome !! I will definitely start playing with this and implementing it in my home lab. Thank you Tim for another video with great and very useful content as always. Best regards !
This is so cool and easy to do. Thanks for the great tutorial! I just set up the server VM on my Promox host, configured pfSense and it works perfectly. One very minor thing I had happen though was 4GB of ram for my "netbooter" VM resulted in the error "Unable to find a live filesystem on the network" when trying to boot. I increased the ram to 8GB and it works as expected.
Thank you!! I had the same issue, increasing RAM to 8GB did fix it.
I wonder why it requires more than 4Gb allocated to the VM. That seems like an awful lot of RAM. What OS were you using? The only one I can think of that would require so much is MS Windows 10/Server 2019/2022.
23 years ago I made a boot floppy with boot meny to select NIC and pulled win 2000 install thru the network. installed win on over 300 workstations
I was very skeptical about netboot at first, but as you mentioned there's a self-hosted option which doesn't require internet to work I got hooked immediately. Great video, will definitely try it out soon! Also, thanks a lot for including the subtitles❤
Thanks for sharing! Also, I always try to get the subtitles right but I am sure there are some typos!
@@TechnoTim I'm not saying all of CZcams is this way, but you put way more effort than probably 85% of the videos I watch on a daily basis. Very important for me as someone who is moderately hearing impaired. Big thanks from me, too. 👍
self-hosted option ?!
I would put a proxy server in front of your local instance of NetBoot instead of a network cache behind it. The proxy could try your local cache for images and fail back to the hosted one. This would allow you to install any supported OS and gain a speed benefit for those your copied to your local instance. An added benefit is checking the access log of your proxy server to see exactly what images you should cache locally.
Excellent. No wasted time, loads of information. An old time hacker salutes you. Will check the blog.
I found the sideways cutting a distraction but that seems to be a thing now.
I watched this because I love adding cool new features to my homelab. After watching you, it turns out I know NOTHING about computers... haha a lot of things out there to learn about! Good video Tim, thank you very much!
I just want to give you my thanks for making me aware of this, I’ve always used PXE boot in a work environment but hadn’t considered it for home, I am really happy to have this now setup with help of this video!
Thanks for the video, netboot is exactly what I was looking for as a replacement for my crusty pxelinux setup.
One comment on the studio setup: Dynamic content in the background is very distracting. You want the viewers to pay attention to you, not staring at the videos in the background. I've been guilty of making the same mistake (these were color-changing lights in my case), until a friend working on professional productions pointed it out to me.
Thank you and thank you for the tip!
Lol. If the content is worthy, then background distractions don't really matter.
Dude, thank you for this. I have wanted to setup pixie boot for my homelab for a while now but put it off because I thought it would be a pain in the a$$. Now if only there was a hybrid mode, download from internet if not cached instead of choosing…
100% agreed! I thought that's how it worked but I will have something soon!
Right...kind of like a "steamcache" server...have it download the image of your choosing once...and proxy it locally automatically
One download, hundreds of "netboot uploads" but have it all cached and retained automatically w/o needing to select and download pre-config style
@@haydenc2742 Squid?
I love Ventoy. I have a stick set up with many OS's, as well as a bunch of drivers, common programs, and troubleshooting tools. Has come in handy many times now. Also keep all my OS ISOs backed up on my ProxMox server in case the stick fails.
I discovered this thing 2 months ago, but I didn't test my local repository yet. So, this video came as gold for me.
Easy peasy... Great walkthrough on getting everything up and running quickly. Thanks!
This is amazing, miss the days of using PXE from the Norton Ghost and Acronis days certainly running this up this afternoon.
Ghost - that takes me back. I remember using the product before Symantec acquired it. It was awesome for setting up a fresh copy of the machines in our training labs for each weeks classes.
@@andrewr7820 was awesome wasn’t it I moved to Acronis. I used to be responsible for sorting a lot of the builds out for major travel agents and government departments in the UK so the ability to build loads of machines as quickly as possible was a must. KVMs. Space and power was our only real limitations
Thank you kindly! Was in the process of lifting a Windows deployment server and services.
But this will do nicely!
Holy cow, what a timing! I was just to start building a Ventoy drive
This is great! I would love to see a follow-up that configures lancache (or something else) instead of going the local route.
Succinct video as always. Easy to follow. This was the video that finally got me exploring PXE booting of VM images on my Proxmox host. Well done and greatly appreciated.
so much for linking to the docker setup
I just bought an iodd St400 for this purpose. One USB drive with a GUI that allows you to install hundreds of distros onto it. It is not easy to use, but there are free solutions that you can do this with a thumb drive as well. That option is open source, and then you determine what OS you want installed via a text file.
Very useful information 🎉 thanks tim for sharing this video 🙏
Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day. This is awesome
Yet another awesome vid from technotim - thx bro!!
Thank you for this in-depth tour of this great tools.
Thanks Tim! Been wanting to do this for a while but like you, I thought it was going to be a chore but it was easy and pFSense allows for legacy and UEFI32/64/ARM in DHCP options! Now to see if I can get the TFTP to also serve up enterprise router images...
Glad it helped and glad you also took the plunge!
Super cool, I've needed something like this for a long time, instead of usb
I am astonished, just found out about this and your channel. Loving what you do and how you explain the whole thing.
Great video! Awesome tool! Thanks a lot for the in depth instructions and demo.
That's awesome Tim.
Thanks very much.
This is do much better than Maas, which you showed before and which required them to provide us with images. Thanks for the info
Great stuff, thanks for sharing this.
Great stuff as always. Only issue left for now is to make it work in my multi-VLAN setup. DHCP Relaying is not enough, so it seems...
Think of all the possibilities! At work we use a lot of 14 blade / 28 node chassis for k8s enviroments (rke / rke2 and rancher). We've made a playbook that utilizes an unattended install of centos (now migrating that to rocky). A couple scripts to address all the nodes to the DHCP (pxe) segment of the network, then we use ipmitools to set pxe at next boot and reboot the nodes, then the unattended install, then post install clean up and final addressing. Love me some good pxe tools, and this is pretty neat! Idk about for prod use (only since we're established in our ways) but I'll prob use this for home use. Thanks!
Great ideas!
Awesome! In case you were looking for feedback though, my vote would be against using the webcam for the second angle :/ partially because of the monitor on the bottom half of the shot, and partially because then you are talking to the camera during those shots (which feels a bit awkward. Love your vids though! Keep it up
Thank you very much for this. Definitely subbed.
Awesome, thank you!
Tip: the command "tree" shows the file structure recursively. Perfect for showing in tutorials
Brilliant - thank you! 👌
Good video Tim! Thank you for sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP
I started out thinking this isn't an improvement over Ventoy but custom installs and self hosting kinda do make the argument. It's not for me but it's certainly interesting.
This is so very cool. Thank you!
You are THE MAN! Thank you!
Thanks for this. I appreciate it
Finally. I can't believe it took this long. I used to program embedded thin clients.
Great content. Helped me a lot, but something that I don't see anyone reviewing is how to create custom menus. I say this because, I want to test some repos that aren't listed to download and I don't know how to properly add them to local assets and boot it. An example of this, but not the only one would be Bazzite.
I would love to see a walk through for lan cache from you Tim
Amazing tool and amazing video. Thanks.
Amazing job, man! Thank you very much.
Glad you liked it!
I have no idea what this video is. But I watched the entire thing. Thank you.
Great video. I rarely subscribe to channels anymore, but I did to yours. Well explained, went into depth in the parts others gloss by, and used clear terminology. Thanks to your video I also learned that my router does not support PXE booting and that that's why I haven't managed before! 👍
Nice find, deployed on docker swarm! Thumbs up!
Thank you, great tutorials 👍
Got this working real quick thanks to your video, I'm running it on docker on my Synology NAS. Have OPNSense setup to use the pixie server. Typing this comment in Live Kali booted on my gaming rig without install. Nice!
nice work!
This is neat. I wondered if there would ever be a day I would use PXE at home. Are there any public servers online that are hosting assets people can boot from directly rather than running your own server, etc? Can it even work that way? Forgive my ignorance. Cheers 🥂
What a great idea! I will do this in a container on my Synology NAS.
Spot on! worked 1st time no messing about. Thanks
Glad it helped
@@TechnoTim You don't know the half of it mate, up until 6 months ago i was a builder, then i pulled an old server out of a skip and built a jellyfin server. I got hungry for more knowledge and quickly out grown the z600 i found and now ive created a monster :) I now have 3 Dell Servers r730 r620 r230 and host just about anything that tweaks my interest, the majority with the help of your videos.
Builder by day mega geek by night haha
i would love to see this setup on a service like CasaOS (a nice userfriendly way to deploy docker containers)
This is AWESOME! I didn't have docker running so I had to install that, but once I did I followed your guide and now I can pxe boot on my network. Whodathunkit?!?
Weird thing when I was getting this setup and tested. The VM that I setup on ProxMox using 4GB of RAM just like you wouldn't install Pop_OS. Did some digging and found the solution was that the Live CD was too big to use 4GB of RAM. Upped to 8 and it worked after that. Not sure if you cut that step out of your tutorial here or the Pop_OS Live CD got bigger since then, but thought I would put that out there for anyone else having issues with it.
with this setup my distro hopping nightmare is never going to end lol
Will implement this on my organization cause we test different software and need custom windows. For a lot of machines.
This was an awesome video, TY!
Thank you!
I use a device named the "iodd".
Basically it's a usb device with a keyboard and screen.
Once plugged into a computer, it spoofs itself as a DVD drive containing the ISO you selected.
Great overview!
Definitely useful tool. I'm going to try out asap. 😅
Awesome and thanks for sharing
I’d recommend watching this at 0.5x
I read the instructions on how to set it up for Windows and I think that it would be worthwhile to go through each of those steps in detail because I KNOW that people will use this as a “live” tutorial.
(i.e. where do you install the Windows ADK to??? I read that in your instructions, but I am unclear as to where I am installing that to.)
Clarifying each step in terms of what we are doing and why or what it will be used for would be super helpful.
Thank you.
super thing you introduced me today .
since i tend to work on various retro computers for friends and family, i still use floppies, cd-r's and usb drives, sometimes i'll use something like pc anywhere, better to boot from one floppy, and then transfer files over LPT at a blazing 150kb/s. most of the systems lack network cards, and the ones that do have them can't boot from them usually. still though if i end up working on 2010+ systems in the future i'll probably use something like this.
Hey great video however missed my use case and that is i have heaps of ISO's however none covered in the livecd approach. Would have loved to see how you define booting to a given ISO
Thanks Tim! Assuming you have heard this before... You look like (young) Johnny Depp. Your content is amazing Timward Dockerhands! Keep it up!! Cheers :)
How have I not been subbed to you when I follow you on Twitter? Well, I changed that today.
Thanks for doing this one! I've been wanting to set this up in my homelab for some time, having used a similar setup years ago at an IT job leveraging TFTP32. I think I'm going to have to figure out a caching proxy service for those images. I'm open for ideas!
Thinking about the possibilities this offers from a security perspective, if there was a way to make the internet connection a secure VPN, every time someone goes to use their “computer” they could boot directly into a new instance of Tails and every use is insanely private
This would have been super helpful yesterday
Daaang, Tim! Great video... nice little project to work on a lazy Saturday ;)
your voice is perfect
please do networking +
security + vids - CompTIA etc
😔🙏
This really cool man superrr....thanx top site !!!
Absolutely Amazing Video! Thanks Tim! This is exactly what I needed on my environment. You are a ROCK STAR!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video Tim. This would solve the problem of booting from outdated ISOs. Seems better than iVentoy too if the boot images are regularly updated. However, downloading images on multiple machines from the Internet each time is a bit of a bummer. Could you do a video on how to integrate it with Lancache or Squid? I think that'd be useful.
Hi there, excellent video, one question running this on synology using docker however not loading dashboard - what have I missed?
Right time! Many thanks Sir! You're saver! Because Microsoft is changing MDT and WDS😤. So really thanks!
Been looking for something like this since booting windows over PXE/BOOTP became a headache! Need to find my old self made docs for my boot server...
Worth a shot: Try Windows with the VMnet network card. Don't know if the Proxmox BIOS supports it but Windows does AFAIK.
You might have to mention that bios secure boot is a thing , i spent like tow days trying to make it work just for fun and after disabling secure boot on the pc that is booting from pxe it worked .
Many many years ago Ive discovered zalman ve-400 ... and still using it to boot any iso to install OS or boot live cd/dvd
Thank you!
Bloody brilliant! 👌👌