Re:Ask HN: What's on your home server?
by BanjoBass on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:11PM
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Seems like a smart way to do it, but that relies on having another always-on system standing as the server. OP's solution only requires the one device, the rPi unless something needs to be changed.
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Re:Ask HN: What's on your home server?
by LeoPanthera on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:07PM
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That's true. In theory you could use an extra Raspberry Pi itself as the netboot server. But since my home network already has a fileserver it was an easy choice.
Re:Ask HN: What's on your home server?
by cassianoleal on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:50PM
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If you run an open source router distro like OpenWRT or OPNSense, you can use it as the PXE Boot host. That's a device that needs to be running anyway.
I've seen a lot of people running their routers as a VM on something like Proxmox and that gives you even more flexibility but it does require a beefier server - one that could potentially replace all the RasPis, potentially making the PXE boot redundant. :D