Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by hnlmorg on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:49AM
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That was the issue for me though. It would often be years between usages since the only time I needed it was when a computer stopped booting or I was repurposing a device. Neither being things that happens very often.
Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by bravetraveler on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:16AM
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Aye, that makes sense. It's hard to justify if you don't leverage it often
I moved and I've been hard pressed to bother booting everything up and checking on it, and I have quite a lot of devices to manage
These with even relatively dated 'netinstall' media can provide you with current installations. Then provide you with super fast updates.
I'm more familiar with doing this with RPM based distributions -- CentOS, Fedora, etc. It's basically a web server and rsync behind a [parameterized] systemd timer so you can centrally control existing/new mirrors
The results can admittedly be a little funny. If the netinstall is so far behind that RPM doesn't know what to do with the new packages, then yea - time to get a new one :)