Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
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Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#2This is sort-of cool, I guess, but also very much not what you would want to do?
I mean, people agitate against `curl blah.xyz | sh` for a reason.
And this, by any measure, is much worse. Also: 'By default iPXE does not compile in HTTPS support'
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#3This is sort-of cool, I guess, but also very much not what you would want to do? I mean, people agitate against `curl blah.xyz | sh` for a reason. And this, by any measure, is much worse. Also: 'By default iPXE does not compile in HTTPS support'
Space is at a premium on things like that. Having it makes some computers not boot ipxe.
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#4This is neat. It’s like Mac internet recovery mode but for everybody else
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#5This is sort-of cool, I guess, but also very much not what you would want to do? I mean, people agitate against `curl blah.xyz | sh` for a reason. And this, by any measure, is much worse. Also: 'By default iPXE does not compile in HTTPS support'
That's why a serious user sets up their own server, serves the images that they have selected and checked, and doesn't serve outside of their known netspace.
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#6Am I missing something or is there no documentation about what their distro/hardware support matrix looks like? Do I have to just boot into it and navigate the menus to figure that out?
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#7Another neat "pick an OS to boot into" tool I discovered recently is Ventoy [1]. You install the bootable menu on your USB drive, and then you just drop ISOs or IMGs on there to add choices.
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#8This is sort-of cool, I guess, but also very much not what you would want to do? I mean, people agitate against `curl blah.xyz | sh` for a reason. And this, by any measure, is much worse. Also: 'By default iPXE does not compile in HTTPS support'
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#9Another neat "pick an OS to boot into" tool I discovered recently is Ventoy [1]. You install the bootable menu on your USB drive, and then you just drop ISOs or IMGs on there to add choices. [1] https://ventoy.net/en/index.html
Not bad, but with questionable choices making it not usable on a dedicated hard-drive partition:
Re: Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
#10Am I missing something or is there no documentation about what their distro/hardware support matrix looks like? Do I have to just boot into it and navigate the menus to figure that out?
https://netboot.xyz/docs/faq#what-operating-systems-are-curr...
However they don't list the versions of each OS.
As for hardware support, I guess it's i686/x86-64 only?