PXE Boot on unRaid?

HectorF · April 7, 2020

So to be honest this is a bit of a celebration because my R720 now has dual E5 2680 V2s and it also has 320 GB of DDR3 sooo.... Woop Woop!

I've been folding with it and its great for that purpose but now I need a machine for guests and woopty doo, I'm making more USB images. I just got fired, but before that we were experimenting at our local IT store with PXE boot and how to get it working nicely in a docker image if possible. Now im looking into MDT possibly or just running PXE in a VM (that is to say PXE or MDT on a server 2012 R2 VM with 2 cores 4 threads).

In short, is there a way to run PXE boot in a docker image where it pulls ISOs from an network share or if necessary to just have the ISOs local?

BTW if you recommend some better formatting for this post, please PM me and ill correct it for future notice, haven't posted in like 3-4 years

Electronics Wizardy · April 7, 2020

You should be able to run most of it from docker(probably need some special config for the dhcp server, i woudln't run that in docker it if was me. Then you can point that to what ever mount you want on your server, than can be a nfs or smb mount if you want.

From what ive done withpxe, a lot of the time your not using normal iso's and using the images made for this use, and often you have to do some config, and not just copy a iso to a share.