Made something similar at work a bunch of years back…. :) good to see people still thinking of this stuff and making modern versions That being said what may be more useful is a EFI binary you can push to a motherboard that does this with a tpm key
Some projects have been around for over a decade =3 https://fogproject.org/ https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject
Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server
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Re: Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server
#12Made something similar at work a bunch of years back…. :) good to see people still thinking of this stuff and making modern versions That being said what may be more useful is a EFI binary you can push to a motherboard that does this with a tpm key
Some projects have been around for over a decade =3 https://fogproject.org/ https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject
Yeah all of these rely on layer 2 or dhcp relay and are really ipv4 only solutions.
Not to discount what the fog guys had… love what they made :)
Look at ironic for something better.
What we eventually ended up with after a couple of iterations was decidedly better for our use case :)
But sadly doesn’t exist in the outside world yet :(.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some projects have been around for over a decade =3 https://fogproject.org/ https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject
Yeah all of these rely on layer 2 or dhcp relay and are really ipv4 only solutions. Not to discount what the fog guys had… love what they made :) Look at ironic for something better. What we eventually ended up with after a couple of iterations was decidedly better for our use case :) But sadly doesn’t exist in the outside world yet :(.
Could you share your case's details? It sounds like you wanted better L3/IPv6 support and figured out a clean way to achieve it.
Re: Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server
#14There's also https://netboot.xyz which is quite cool too.
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#15Nice, although if you already are running your own DHCP and web server, it's very easy to add a TFTP server and configure everything to serve whatever you want. So it does feel a bit like reinventing the wheel to me.
A PXE boot server has many uses. The project already mentions using it for tools like GParted, Memtest86+ and so on. Booting live OS or OS installers via netboot.xyz is also great. But you can automate things even further; at a previous job (~18 years ago) I used PXE to serve a debian installer image with a preseed file to add user accounts with SSH keys, apt install all the dependencies, and install local binaries to get machines up and running useful stuff without needing to do any manual configuration. Nowadays you'd probably just have it do a minimal install + add just an SSH key, and then let another tool like Ansible take over the rest of the provisioning.
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#16Has anyone else noticed how readily identifiable AI generated text is? This is a very cool project, and I suppose it's hard to know for sure, but everything about the site describing the project "feels" AI generated to me. I do not say this to detract from the value of the project or its very interesting nature, by the way. Just an orthogonal observation.
It's the staccato sentences
Yes, I wonder why the models do that so readily.
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#17Performative UI unnecessary green status dot: check!
Slop websites are getting very old very fast.
https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/#/components/status-...
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#18Has anyone else noticed how readily identifiable AI generated text is? This is a very cool project, and I suppose it's hard to know for sure, but everything about the site describing the project "feels" AI generated to me. I do not say this to detract from the value of the project or its very interesting nature, by the way. Just an orthogonal observation.
Definitely AI generated. But the project is interesting, because that space felt a bit dry to me. netboot.xyz and iventoy are cool, but for most basic use cases I always felt these things could be yet further simplified. So I guess I'll go and review the code when I find some time. EDIT: Found the disclosure in the repo: >I've used Claude CLI to help with some parts of this project - mostly making the web UI pretty,…
Yep, not everyone takes AI's output, and uses it verbatim. Sometimes it feels like everyone gets painted with the same brush.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely AI generated. But the project is interesting, because that space felt a bit dry to me. netboot.xyz and iventoy are cool, but for most basic use cases I always felt these things could be yet further simplified. So I guess I'll go and review the code when I find some time. EDIT: Found the disclosure in the repo: >I've used Claude CLI to help with some parts of this project - mostly making the web UI pretty,…
Yep, not everyone takes AI's output, and uses it verbatim. Sometimes it feels like everyone gets painted with the same brush.
Yes, that's why I think responsible people should truthfully disclose.
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#20Nice, although if you already are running your own DHCP and web server, it's very easy to add a TFTP server and configure everything to serve whatever you want. So it does feel a bit like reinventing the wheel to me. A PXE boot server has many uses. The project already mentions using it for tools like GParted, Memtest86+ and so on. Booting live OS or OS installers via netboot.xyz is also great. But you can automate t…
Alternatives to Ansible could be Nix / nixos, or bootc.