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		LeoPanthera on April 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just y... My Raspberry Pis all netboot. I have a bunch of them around the house. Some play music, some play games, some are smart TVs. Because they all boot from the LAN, there's no card to wear out, and I can change what OS they boot into just by renaming a file. It's simple, but intensely useful.

yeswecatan on May 1, 2023 | [–]

This is super cool. Did you follow any specific tutorial?

maherbeg on April 28, 2023 | [–]

What are they netbooting from? Presumably there's a root device somewhere?

LeoPanthera on April 28, 2023 | [–]

Yes, a TrueNAS box running a TFTP server for /boot and NFS for root.

The server is discovered via DHCP.

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