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Tired of using thumb drives to install Linux on new computers and I wanna install stuff via pxe. Do we have options in the open source world?

Work uses KACE so I'm used to that interface, but its expensive and ass.

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Debian has some instructions here, maybe it can be used for other platforms as well.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

https://fogproject.org/

It does the full imaging process, not just pxe booting, but I'm sure you can use it just for that.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 minutes ago

When I last tried to setup openwrt+iPXE I kept ending up on their forum but I don't get what are they actually for ? Is that just a netbootable disk imaging thing ? Live OS netbooting ? Installer netbooting ?

Is it like iVentoy the non-open source netbootable version of ventoy ?

[–] somewa@suppo.fi 11 points 4 hours ago
[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

Honestly i use my openwrt router, and Tinkerbell (pxe boot services deployed and managed from kubernetes!). Ubuntus MaaS had a really straight forward set and gui too.