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I have a whole bunch of laptops I want to hardware test without booting to the local HDD (they're all slow as gently caress with leftover/corrupt boot data). A slim linux session would suit my needs perfectly. Would it make sense to create a bootable live environment stored on NFS somewhere to netboot to? Is that at all practical? Or would it be better to just use CDs or USB sticks. If I were to go the netboot route, how would I get it to play nice with the Fog Imaging server I'm already running?
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Aug 4, 2017 15:09
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Most bootable hardware tests I'm aware of either have official documentation for PXE booting or aren't very hard to get working with PXELINUX/iPXE. I have a PXELINUX setup I like at home but I'm working on moving to iPXE so I don't need TFTP beyond the initial loader. http://netboot.xyz has a really nice iPXE setup I'm using for some inspiration.
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Aug 7, 2017 19:05
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this thing kicks rear end, thanks a lot. i tried the usb option and it basically does what i need it to do out of the box, and I can just point it to load an iso somewhere from local network storage. i'll try the dhcp option tomorrow. thanks again. 
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Aug 7, 2017 21:46
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