questions about network boot

[the gamer that is bad]

1 What is it/what dose it do

2 dose it allow you to boot from another computer

3 how would i use it

[Slottr]

Say you have a windows installation image on a server somewhere

 

You boot using this to install windows on that pc

[the gamer that is bad]

3 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Say you have a windows installation image on a server somewhere

 

You boot using this to install windows on that pc

would you need to flash the image because i have a pi4 setup as a gas and there are 2 computers i want to run off of that drive as a shared drive is that possible

[Kilrah]

What OS do you want to run? What's the purpose? What's the reason not to install the OS on the PCs themselves?

[the gamer that is bad]

7 hours ago, Kilrah said:

What OS do you want to run? What's the purpose? What's the reason not to install the OS on the PCs themselves?

windows, i want to have 2 computers with files synced, and i only have 1 drive for 2 pc s 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, the gamer that is bad said:

windows, i want to have 2 computers with files synced, and i only have 1 drive for 2 pc s 

then you dont want network boot, you just want a nas, and then you have a shared folder on both of them with the same contents. 

 

Network booting is when the pcs don't have any drives in them and you boot from a network storage device.

[the gamer that is bad]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

then you dont want network boot, you just want a nas, and then you have a shared folder on both of them with the same contents. 

 

Network booting is when the pcs don't have any drives in them and you boot from a network storage device.

ok thank you 

[charlie_root]

Network booting is commonly used for OS installation. For example, at work we have remote datacenters and we obviously aren't able to run around plugging in a bootable USB or DVD every time we need to install an OS on a new server deployment. Instead we have servers that host the bootable operating system installer image, and then when deploying a new server, we network boot that image, then install it on the new hardware.

[TargetDron3]

Like others said, network booting PXE booting is typically for getting a machine to a point where it can download an OS to install locally.

You can use it to run things like wyse terminals /thin clients, but it's really not ideal for running windows.  Most thin clients run something like a citrix desktop.  

At the beginning of my IT career i set up and supported a network boot environment running Windows for workgroups and windows 3.11. 

 

If you have 2 computers and only one hard drive, buy another hard drive. 

[the gamer that is bad]

4 minutes ago, TargetDron3 said:

Like others said, network booting PXE booting is typically for getting a machine to a point where it can download an OS to install locally.

You can use it to run things like wyse terminals /thin clients, but it's really not ideal for running windows.  Most thin clients run something like a citrix desktop.  

At the beginning of my IT career i set up and supported a network boot environment running Windows for workgroups and windows 3.11. 

 

If you have 2 computers and only one hard drive, buy another hard drive. 

ok i have just ordered another hhd