pooterbooter

Dnsmasq pxe tftp boot server from .iso files, via tftp/http/nfs/ipxe and maybe others ..in an attempt to make the simplest pxe server ..in the world ..and to save myself from dd'ing

v0.0.2 (The best setup in my mind)

• apt-cacher-ng and auto-apt-proxy for apt caching
• di-netboot-assistant for installing Debian/Ubuntu
• NFS and ufw
• Debian/Ubuntu Live with NFS (less ram)
• Boot into original di-netboot-assistant/LTSP menus
• Can boot into windows 10 setup

v0.0.2 Quick start

• Setup manual IP address by hand or via dhcp::mac
• Run: git clone https://github.com/soholt/pooterbooter && cd pooterbooter
• Install required software ./install
• Setup folders and firewall ./setup
• If no errors, start the firewall sudo ufw enable
• Edit: configs/dnsmasq.pb.conf (might automate soon)
• Run: cd admin && ./serv to start the admin server, you will be required to enter root password to admin/mount/unmount
• Browse: http://$my_ip_address:3000/
• Download some images to /srv/tftp/www/iso or mount hdd/usb
• Mount iso images in admin

v0.0.2 Todo

• try to reduce journalctl output to speedup json
• ui fixes+improvments, multi iPXE menu

Tested on Debian 11 Bullseye (testing)

Workings of ./admin

• Search for available *.iso files in /srv/tftp/www/iso
• Search for mounted iso file systems
• Mount/umount iso and generate pxe/ipxe menus

v0.0.1 Currently tftp/http pxe, only BIOS boot at this time is available

• Tested and works with archlinux, clonezilla, ubuntu server
• Ubuntu desktop/studio RAM: 3Gb=crash, 6Gb=Ok*
• Archlinux boots in 4min from Raspberry Pi1, ubuntu slow to dowload via 100Mb network
• Archlonux boot Gigabit lan 1min15sec, Pi4 should be similar
• TODO: Debian, Fedora and others
• TODO: Raspberry Pi boot
• TODO: EFI64 & EFI32 boot + arch
• TODO: iPXE & NFS(also need to see mounted iso-loop, maybe missing some opts)
• debian(I suspect it might be the same as pi)/ubuntu setup files

Tested on 21/June/2021 on Raspberry Pi1 - Raspberry Pi OS Lite from raspberrypi.org

ISO: 2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.zip sha256 zip file c5dad159a2775c687e9281b1a0e586f7471690ae28f2f2282c90e7d59f64273c Update OS: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install git Enable ssh: sudo systemctl enable ssh && sudo systemctl start ssh The rest can be done remotly

Troubleshooting

• Disable firewall sudo ufw disable
• Check the services are up & running with no errors
• • systemctl status dnsmasq
• • systemctl status nginx
• • systemctl status nfs-kernel-server
• To restart a service/after reconfig systemctl restart SERVICE_NAME_FROM_ABOVE

Dev/debug

• For realtime happenings run ./logDnsmasq ./logNginxAccess ./logNginxError files
• Some docs in ./admin/downloads.php

Unable to test EFI64/32, my current hardware is decade old.

Crowd funding for Raspberry Pi4 and EFI64/32 https://ko-fi.com/ginsoholt

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This (is)was supposed the be part of https://github.com/soholt/Tango but..

.. I also remember pxe booting G5, need to find the old scripts or magic options

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My try to https://hackaday.io/project/180773-pooterbooter but I missed the deadlines :( oh well