Has anyone used a file server to serve OS images

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Has anyone used a file server to serve OS images 2017-06-25 01:03:57 Post No. 61067281
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Has anyone used a file server to serve OS images Anonymous 2017-06-25 01:03:57 Post No. 61067281 [Report]

Background: I want a Ryzen system for gaming and also for acting as an Openstack VM server. Therefore, I want it to run both Centos and Windows, possibly Ubuntu, Arch and others.

Problem: Because Microsoft is run by assholes, they force to update Windows 10 when they say. When the upgrade happens it wipes out the Grub boot loader. Therefore, I would like to avoid dual booting.

Proposed solution: Build a OS image server and network book the Ryzen system off of the Network server. The Ryzen system itself would have no OS installed thus allowing me to boot to whatever OS I want whenever I want.

Is this a practical solution?

I have a Raspberry Pi that can run as a PXE server/Clonezilla server. However, this has only been use to install operating systems not to server the OS to another system.

Anonymous 2017-06-25 02:31:28 Post No.61068229
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Anonymous 2017-06-25 02:31:28 Post No.61068229 [Report]

1. Project FOG would be a good server system to use.
2. It would be easier to just partition drives or get several drives to boot from instead of imaging at every boot. Imaging takes forever, especially if you don't have amazing internet speeds and an SSD (which you would kill with the constant writing anyway)

Anonymous 2017-06-25 03:32:50 Post No.61068913
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Anonymous 2017-06-25 03:32:50 Post No.61068913 [Report]

>>61067281
>I want a Ryzen system
your fisrt mistake

Anonymous 2017-06-25 04:32:23 Post No.61069561
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Anonymous 2017-06-25 04:32:23 Post No.61069561 [Report]

>>61067281
You could just run windows in a VM and passthrough the hardware it needs.

Anonymous 2017-06-25 04:57:22 Post No.61069810
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Anonymous 2017-06-25 04:57:22 Post No.61069810 [Report]

>>61069561
This. No clue how well this works on Ryzen atm since when it launched it seemed to have issues.

Anonymous 2017-06-25 05:01:51 Post No.61069843
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Anonymous 2017-06-25 05:01:51 Post No.61069843 [Report]

>>61069810
The latest bios update added support for gpu passthrough, but I wouldn't be surprised if freetards haven't implemented it yet.

Anonymous 2017-06-25 09:58:04 Post No.61072009
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Anonymous 2017-06-25 09:58:04 Post No.61072009 [Report]

>>61068229
I don't think I explained the process properly. I'm not going to install an operating system on the gaming machine I'm planning on Network booting from NFS.

Anonymous 2017-06-25 10:08:19 Post No.61072111
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Anonymous 2017-06-25 10:08:19 Post No.61072111 [Report]

>>61072009
Hope your network is 10Gb or better...

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I'm aware that Imgur.com will stop allowing adult images since 15th of May. I'm taking actions to backup as much data as possible.
Read more on this topic here - https://archived.moe/talk/thread/1694/