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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@http" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>http</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/@Rob298" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Rob298</span></a></span> <em>precisely that!</em></p><ul><li><p>Also most corp/org/edu networks only backup the <code>$HOME</code> directory and sometimes even allow syncing them across distros &amp; keep them across version updates, so all the settings, addons and stuff remaib where they are: in said <code>/home/</code> subfolders!</p></li><li><p>In fact most places with a sizeable <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Desktop</span></a> landscape will just keep the /home/ directory on a redundant, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/iSCSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iSCSI</span></a>-SAN and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/netboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netboot</span></a> their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DisklessWorkstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisklessWorkstation</span></a>|s via <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/iPXE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iPXE</span></a>, as this way burglars stealing devices most likely end up with a locked-down machine (anything but booting the preset network targets won't work without admin password!) that is a paperweight to them and espechally <em>no data</em>, which is crucial when it comes to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ITsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ITsec</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpSec</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ComSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComSec</span></a>. </p></li></ul><p>Cuz it's way easier to secure 1-5 server rooms than thousands of publicly accessible machines on multiple campuses.</p><ul><li>It's also a real godsent for technicians as they can just login / boot into a diagnostics system and quickly see what's wrong if a system has issues (if they don't already see it in their dashboard that collects logs, telling them they need to replace the CPU fan or clean a machine as it's overheating)...</li></ul>
David Vasandani<p>Is it possible to manage netbook.xyz’s menu config files manually and not via the UI?<br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/netboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netboot</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ipxe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ipxe</span></a></p>
Grzegorz Surmann :verified:<p>Netboot aufgefrischt <a href="https://blog.funil.de/1786/sinuspl/deutsch/de-systemadministration/netboot-aufgefrischt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.funil.de/1786/sinuspl/deu</span><span class="invisible">tsch/de-systemadministration/netboot-aufgefrischt/</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.funil.de/tags/netboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netboot</span></a></p>
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@SweetAIBelle @OS1337
So instead of relying on some non-#reproduceable system images for cheap SBCs, why not make something like #OS1337 that is compact enough that one can easily build everything one wants for it to get at least started with something.

  • After all, rarely does a project call for a fancy, hardware-accelerated GUI desktop with a Cube-Style animated Virtual Desktop switcher.

Sometimes one just needs to bood a system, check it's hardware and #ddrescue something off the internal harddrive because one doesn't have any other system that can run it...

GitHubGitHub - OS-1337/netboot: Network / Internet Boot Configurations needed to boot OS/1337 via Network and/or Internet using iPXENetwork / Internet Boot Configurations needed to boot OS/1337 via Network and/or Internet using iPXE - OS-1337/netboot
#netboot#rescuesystem#disklessworkstations
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@warthog9 @kwf Granted, I doubt anyone's gonna #mirror OS/1337 anytime soon and I do want some fallback to enshure that if #GitHub were to ever pull a #DockerHub, nothing would impact the end-users...

But that's more of a hypothetical as of now.

Still I do find this insightful and yes, if I had the €€€€€ upfront to get it started I would've lilely offered people #upcycled #ThinClients and #MiniPC's as cheap #Servers long ago - it's just that #Colocation amd Hardware ain's free...

I'll keep that conversation in mind.
After all, any #netboot #infrastructure would require me to setup classic #mirrors anyway...
github.com/OS-1337/netboot

GitHubGitHub - OS-1337/netboot: Network / Internet Boot Configurations needed to boot OS/1337 via Network and/or Internet using iPXENetwork / Internet Boot Configurations needed to boot OS/1337 via Network and/or Internet using iPXE - OS-1337/netboot
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Today's "in case you didn't know" link is purely technical wizardry. If you do anything at all with OS installations (bare metal, vms, really anything) you probably want to know about https://netboot.xyz
It is a net-bootable menu of TONS of installers, tools, live cds, full distributions, etc. It is self-hostable, and it even works on ARM64!

Cheat code: Get into an iPXE shell (in a VM just enable netboot and hit ^B when prompted) then run dhcp to get an address, and chain --autofree https://boot.netboot.xyz to boot the menu (pictured)

#linux #windows #tools #recovery #virtualization #vm #netboot #install #livecd

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