Mate, I was thinking the same thing! I refuse to put big shock writing and clickbait wankery with some "OMG" dickhead face just to get clicks though. The right people know where this channel is :)

100% agree.

Good to hear that some people actually like to get into the nuts and bolts of things!

I've tried pxe booting with dnsmasq before and it works quite well.

No worries. I try to keep it technical..... I try.

The channel loves you!

Thank you

Should I?

@@TallPaulTech Sure

Hopefully it can help someone else avoid figuring it out the hard way, although I've figured many things out the hard way and it's probably the best way to learn/remember.

Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the bootloader is primarily what is contained in the boot image on the tftp server, basically the bare minimum until it can go to a more robust file server for the rest of the files. I don't think there is anything stopping you from just using tftp, however it's slow and very insecure. The tftp server is likely just set up on a machine he has elsewhere on his network, setting one up is beyond the scope of what this video is demonstrating, but works very similar to how any other file hosting server would be set up. There are many resources online which walk you through setting one up on whatever operating system you'd like to host it.

Yes, but you need make boot menu to choose what distro you will boot, syslinux is most popular and very easy to configure.

did you ever get sorted out? did you go with iPXE?

WDS makes me think of wireless distribution system. Can't believe you didn't already have Wireshark installed!

Perhaps not worth it. Once you get the bootrom loaded (iPXE, pxelinux.0 whatever), shift all network transfer to http.

It was whatever the latest one was available when I made the video. I've put my own .sb files on there of course to customise it.

@@TallPaulTech i also want to do this slax stuff can you tell me which software u r using and we have to share the slax. iso file or we have to extract it in some folder please sir my college project is depended on it

It is really no different than any other Linux Distro.

The utility used in the video to capture network packets is Wireshark! It's very useful.

How did you use Wireshark to capture pxe while boot?

@@GX-ef3ni Hi GX, did you get an answer? if not I can type up an explanation for you.

I can think of 3 ways: 1) On the dhcp server itself; 2)On some switches, you can via port mirror. 3) On vm setups, use bridge networking then do the capture at the host.

He said that the OS he installed via PXE is called Slax

I'm not sure of the Mac setup that you're talking about, but as a side note a wake on lan packet is actually called a magic packet :)

@@TallPaulTech Mac's have the ability to boot off the network, but aside from having a Mac server, I could never figure out how to get the mac to see my PXE server to boot a Linux EFI image. Maybe someday, I'll get the chance to check out the "Next Server" option and see if the mac uses that option.

Ramdisk

Or there is nvme over fabrics protocol

@@alfonzo7822 you can also have any SD/USB device

@@TheJoBlackos that was too simple for my brain at the time 😅

haha, that's not even a tenth of me!

haha, nah but this is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gst3hpxzppuwXZs.html

@@TallPaulTech im becoming a huge fan of you xD

Yes but not secure.

With Linux, installing to iSCSI, FCoE or NFS roots is possible. With Windows, iSCSI, FCoE (Very tricky for FCoE) is your only "non-local" option.

Network gear, APs, Phones, pretty much anything that wants a TFTP server for some part of its operation

@@TallPaulTech FYI: Microsoft's WinPE uses Option 66 ~or~ next-server.

@@matthewhelton1725 Not sure I follow. WinPE doesn't really operate at the point in the video, same as Linux. The issue here is in the NIC firmware handling of the DHCP offer. Different NICs probably behave differently, but there is a bunch of leveraged code. MS had a boot floppy with Windows 2000 for a couple of NICs that was basically the PXE client.

iPXE can, in many cases.

Most of pxes doesn't work on wlan

No

@@Gmyen-qs5ipyes

boot images are iso, not exe. you can not install this on your windows machine, its a separate os.(you can dual boot)

​@nicolas fritzges liddell i fond out how to convert the iso file to exe format. we use a virtual box exe file to open it. why shouldn't I use it? it does seem kinda spooky.

@nicolas fritzges liddell you are just jealoused that I can use metaspoiled to get into the md5 optical lines which go to the mainframe. HAHAHAHAHAA.

@nicolas fritzges liddell and why wouldn't she be proud? I can convert an iso into an executable. No person in the world can do that besides me.

im fascinated by you. i never knew a person can spill more shit from their mouth than from their ass.

I never stopped!

CWNE88 you have windows in most videos.

iPXE can work quite well without setting up all of the iPXE Classes for DHCP, although it is nice for some things (iSCSI boot especially).

@@matthewhelton1725 Need to try that out still i want memtest working via network boot was planing on trying to set it up via iscsci to see if i can bypass that error, i am just a consumer i do not wanna pay 2600 dollars for a server edition

@@Arokhantos Regular Memtest doesn't work with UEFI systems unless using the EFI Builds.

The one I used in this video really.

CWNE88 Will check it out. Thanks.

@@seanmchughnt Yeah, best to view the video before asking questions that are answered in the video.

CWNE88 Not what I meant. I will check SLAX out. Was also interested if you have any other live Linux Distros that you recommend.

@@seanmchughnt Ah, well there are others I guess but I only know Slax from the past. I do like it, and it's Debian based now anyway so that's good.

Absolutely, that's the guy. I used Slax many years ago and then stopped for a long time. I think it died down a bit or maybe I just wasn't following, but it's here now and I'm back into it.

@@TallPaulTech yes, Tomas stopped the original as he was in desperate need of financial help in real life, and not one org using his free ip steped in to help him through that disaster , apparently its still ongoing but he's just managing to get his affairs in order a little now, hence his from scratch new debian 9/10 based slax work we get to benefit from today. p.s if you feel so inclined please do a generic slax install to usb then install openmediavault on that base like so github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/blob/master/README.md apt-get install wget sudo wget -O - github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/raw/master/install | sudo bash then add the tftp ,pxe and nginx http plugin's and mapped dirs ,and show us how and where to install 2 or 3 generic linux distro's files, with instructions how to make fully working pxe booted selections scripts on that base slax/omv server tutorial to setup and net boot them on the lan... and so give slax more coverage etc... in a practical real life working self contained application we can all use and advocate... the setting up and actually getting a working lan booted os part is so obscure in all the man pages ,most new users and even long time users find it to convoluted to make it work or so it seems, hence the simple omv/slax base in plugin's seem like the best option to educate and help informing basic net booting any distro....

So does this demo. Watch the video closer and listen what I say. PXE is just the initial part.

@@TallPaulTech alright need to watch the video and not only the title ;-) haha

At the moment, not everything can be loaded via http esp the bootrom (iPXE, pxelinux.0) so I'm quite interested how you completely got away with tftp.

they do not