hey everybody chris here again welcomeback to the channelso today we're going to try somethingthat i've actually never tried beforewe are going to set up this machineto boot off the network and this isotherwise known aspixie booting but to do that we're goingto really need to do a couple ofdifferent thingsfirst of all we're going to need a pixieboot serverand this raspberry pi is going to helpus with that so part one of the videotoday is going to be setting up a pixieboot serverwe're also going to need some sort of animage so in part two of the videowe will set up an image and then in partthree we'll actuallyboot off the network so let's getstartedokay so for part one i have a raspberrypi hereand we need to basically get it set upand we're going to show you how we setit up from scratchso the first thing we need to do withthis is take this little sd card i havein my handand load noobs on it which is araspberry pi setup programso let me show you how we do thatto prepare an sd card for use with theraspberry pithere's a couple of steps that need tobe done first the sd cardneeds to be partitioned and formatted todo thatwe're going to go ahead and use thewindows disk management utilitybut first let me put the card into thecomputerokay with the card in the computer i canlaunch disk managementwhich in windows 10 is showed as createand format hard disk partitionswe can scroll down to the bottom of thelist of disksand find our sd card which you can seeisn't allocatedi can right click new simple volumenext next again sign drive hand we're going to do a file system offat32 the raspberry pi supports fat16and fat32 it does not supportntfs we'll click next and then finishand with there we have drive h ready togoso the next thing we need to do isdownload the noobsinstaller and we can just do a googlesearch for download noobs installerchoose the first link there then scrolldownand click download zip and i've actuallyalready done that so i'm going to skipaheadand it's going to go to my downloadsdirectorywhere we can go ahead and findour installer so now that it's alldownloaded in my case i can right clickand sayextract all and choose it to go to drivehokay now that the files are extractedyou can see they're all available ondrive hand our sd card is ready to put in theraspberry piokay now that we're all set up let's goahead and put it in the pieand start it upso here we put this in the pie i've gotthe pie hooked up to the monitorkeyboard and mouse hooked up via thiswireless keyboard and we're just goingto apply powerthis happens to be a raspberry pi model3bi'm not a big fan of the model 4 namelybecause it doesn't have a full-size hdmiport and i really like full-size hdmiportsso whenever the raspberry pi powers onit does this color testand then from there we can run throughthe setup programso first thing it's going to do oninitial boot is do some resizing ofpartitionsand rearranging and now we can choosewhat we want to installafter this initialization completesand we're going to choose to installraspberry pi raspbianraspberry pi os click install thereit's going to ask us if we want toinstall over the existing operatingsystem that's going to be a yesand from there it's going to install sothis will go from0 to 100 and then we'll check back withjust shortlyall right so it looks like the os ishave installed successfully though inthis case it's just oneso let's go ahead and reboot theraspberry pi and do the first bootso now we have a couple of setup optionswe can perform so we'll click nextwe're actually not in the united kingdomwe are in the united states so we'regoing to change thattime zone is going to be wherever it'sgoing to bewe can say probably in new york city'sfineand let's go next english language witha us keyboardnext all right so now we get to choose asuper secret passwordi think it's going to be password for meokay we can click next on thisnow it's going to do some networksearchingand i can go ahead and join my networkwe're actually going to try and servethis wirelessly and see how that goesall right and next we can do thesoftware updatehere we are sometime later the raspberrypi is now up to date and ready to goand it's suggesting that we restart sothe new settings will take effector we can do this later and restart thepi ourselves let's go withlater because there's just a coupleother things i want to set up hereif we go to preferences and then we gotoraspberry pi configuration we can do acouple of things here first of all i'mgoing to change the name of this to beraspberry hostjust to deconflict because i alreadyhave a raspberry pi on my networkand then we're going to do a couple ofother things here with interfaces andwe're going to enable sshand we're also going to enable vncthat way i can access this remotelywe'll come down hereand that's going to launch thosewe're not going to restart right now butnow we have a vnc icon up hereso now we're going to do is actuallyrestart the raspberry piand then as opposed to accessing it viathis monitor here i'm going to access itvia sshso we'll see in a minutewith initial installation of theraspberry pi complete it's time to dosome configurationand for this part of the process i'mgoing to follow a script and here it isso the first thing that we're going todo is secure shell intoour raspberry pi so i'm going to useputtywhich is a windows ssh clientand we're going to go to raspberry hostlog in as a pi user using our supersecret passwordand now we're in first thing that we'regoing to dois install dns mask dns mask does acouple of really critical things for usfirst it allows us to offer a dhcpaddress to any service or i should sayhost that wants to pixie boot or networkbootit also allows routing to the pixiserviceand also serves as a tftp server forpurposes of transferring filesto those hosts that are trying to bootover the networkso let's go ahead and install thatapplicationand then from there we'll do someconfigurationso we will edit the config file i'mgoing to go to the bottom of the fileand we're going to add someconfiguration items and i will explainwhat they doall right so first of all we've set thedhcp server to be disabled toanybody except those instances or hoststhat arepixie booting or network booting that'swhat this is all aboutwe've also set our interface to be ournetwork interface we could gather thatby doing an ifconfig in our case it'swln0i've also set up a range of dhcpaddresses to serve that we're reallyonly ever going to serve onebut this is a range within my dhcpaddress pool on my networkand then from there we're going to map amac address to a specific dhcp addressin this case we're just mapping the macaddress of the one and only host thatwe're going to be network booting todaywe also specify which script to run whenit comes to issuing or showing commandsforconnect or disconnect we want them to beechoed to the screenand then this line here tells us to usethe pixi linux servicethis linux here this line here tells usto use pixie linuxfor the dhcp bootthis line enables that server fortransferring files whenever a instancelogs in and then finally we specifywhereour tftp or file transfer server isgoing to live which is under this barlive tftp boot directoryso with that we can save configurationall right so next up we need to createthat directory that we referenced on thelast line of configuration therewe'll go ahead and do that and at thispoint we can go ahead and restart thedns mask processand for good measure we can go see whatthe status is of that processlooks like it's running and happy that'sa good thingnext up we're going to install andconfigure the pixi linuxprogram which will support the pixie ornetwork bootthat installed we'll go aheadand make a config fileand that is a new file there and fromthere this is going to be the contentsof that file i'll talk about what thisdoesif it will pastelet's try that again there we go okayso basically what this is doing issetting up a menuas well as specifying the image thatwill be served wheneverour uh host logs in to pixie bootor network boot so first line here isjust giving us a nicemenu for when we start up and a name forthat menuum actually these first two lines arebasically doing that giving us a menuand a title for the menufrom there we get to specify some menuitems we're just going to have one andit's going to be windows 3.11we will be building the image for thatnext and we will build the image usingvirtualboxand we will save it as dosboot.img whenwe are completethis memdisk line here basically saysboot using int13interrupts and that allows us toactually boot ms-dosuh on over pixie boot uh traditionallywith this pixie linux program you wouldbe booting a linux operating system butthis mem disc is basically a wrapperwhich allows us to boot a dos imageand from there this append option tellsus that we're using a raw imageas opposed to say maybe a floppy or aniso okaylet's go ahead and exit and we'll savethis filemove on to the next step so the nextthing we need to do is copysome modules into our tftp serverdirectoryrelated to pixi linux so this is goingto create a whole bunch of symboliclinks and we'll see what that looks likein just a minuteand then we also need to add a symboliclink for thememdisk program so now we have all thedifferent support items we need for ourmenuwhat we need for a pixie linux properand then memdisk to be able to load ourimage if we go have a look at varlive tftp boot now we can see that wehave all those items in therenow we're still missing one thing andthat is dos boot.imgbut we will remedy that shortlyfuture chris here i actually left outone link you can see it highlightedthere in blueso in addition to the two links that weput above we also need to make thisparticular symbolic link as welland i will have that in the instructionssorry about thatperhaps the easiest way of getting thatdos boot.image fileover to the raspberry pi is by usingsamba so we're going to go ahead andconfigureor install and configure samba at thispointall rightwe do want to modify smb.com to use winssettings for dhcpthat'll make it easier to find thisserver from a windows computerand once setup is complete we're goingto add these lines to the bottom ofetsy samba smb confa couple of errors on install but itsays to ignore those errors so we aregoodi'm just going to scroll to the bottomof this file and addthose lines which is basically sayingtake that tftp server directoryand map it to a share called dataso with that we should be able to savethis and now we should be able to accessitif we go to raspberry host slash dataand there you have it all of the filesthat we have installed thus farand the next thing we need to do is geta dos boot.image file in there which wewill create nextfuture chris here one other thing we'regoing to have to dofor this tftp boot directory since we'veshared it is actually make it so that itisreadable and writeable by pretty mucheverybodyi'm sure that i don't need thepermissions to be this strong but i'mgoing to make them this strong anywayand just do achamod 777 on var lib tftp bootthere we gowhen it comes to creating a dos imageprobably the easiest way we can do thisis by usingvirtualbox i'm going to go ahead andstart virtualboxwe're going to create a new virtualmachinethis particular virtual machine is justgoing to be a dos machinewe're going to give it 32 megabytes ofmemoryand we're going to create a virtual harddiskand very important we're going to makethat virtual hard disk typevhdand we also want it to be a fixed sizeand we also wanted to be on the smallside because the entirety of this imageis going to get copiedto these host that is doing its itsnetwork booting so let's make it 50megabytesexcellent so now we have a dos machinepowered offnow in order to start at this machinewe're going to need a boot disklet's go ahead and grab an iso boot diskand to do that we can go to all bootdisks.com and i'm going to go to alli'm going to do a google search for allboot disks.622we'll just click there and then we'll gotodownload iso cd images and we'll justgrab a dos 6.22iso all righti'm going to come back to virtualboxright click and say settings for thisparticular virtual machinecome into the storage tab and we alreadyhave an empty cdhere so we can double click on thatactuallylet's single click and come over hereand click on this little cd imageand we can choose a virtual optical diskfilewhich is going to be in our downloadsdirectory and there it isokay and from there we are ready tostart up ourvirtual machineand see if we can scale it up a littlebit so we can actually see itokay with the screen scaled up herewe're ready to configure our diskfirst thing we're going to do is fdiskso we can create a dos partitiona primary partition and make it activenow that we have it we can format itslash sto make it bootableall right we now have a 50 megabyte disknow what we're going to do is actuallyshut down virtualboxand we're going to injectinstallers for 311 as well as dos622 files intothe image using one imageso in wind image i'm going to go andfind that filewhich should be under my profileand then virtualbox vms dosand then we should have alet's see here oh we don't have filename extensions turned on but it's rightherethis dos sorry right here this dosvirtual hard disk vhd so let's go aheadand open thatit's going to give us a little bit ofinformation therenow what we can do is inject thesefoldersinto this image so i'm going to sayimage inject a folderactually first let's create a folder andwe'll call it w311let's change into that folder now we cansay image inject a folderon our desktop chooses 3-1-1 say yesand those files have been injected let'sdo this similarlyfor the ms-dos folderso i've created a folder called ms-dosimageeject a folder 622 which is basically anextracted version of ms-dosokay all set from therewe can close this before we start up thedos machine let's do one thinglet's go into settings let's go intostorage and let's removethat iso that we booted with beforewe'll just delete the whole opticaldrive okaynow we can start the dos imageall right now that we're started let'sgo into the windows 311 directoryand run setup and install windows 311we'll just kind of breeze through thisaccept the defaultsput in some information herewon't set up printers or applications ondiskcontinuewe won't do any network setup we'll letwindows make all modifications for usskip the tutorial and we're doneokay our image is now ready to golet's shut down our virtual machineand the next thing we get to do is takethis image which is avhd image and convert it to a raw imageso that we can thenupload it to our pixi serverso to do that we're going to use thecommand linewe're going to go to program filesoraclevirtualbox we're going to use the vboxmanage commandand for vbox manage the syntax of thecommand is going to be vbox manage clone hdand then we're going to say formatraw and the source image namewhich is going to be c colon users cmlvirtualbox vms dosdos vhd and then i'm going to go aheadand just put this in a temp directoryand call itdos image 2 that imgall right so now we have that imageso at this point what we can do isnavigate to that directoryand we've got a dos image and a dos bootdos boot was from something i triedearlierand now we should be able to go toraspberrypost slash data and paste that inand i'm just going to go ahead andrename itand now we're all set and we're ready tobootokay so with our image ready to go withour boot server set up to gothe next thing to do is to go ahead anddo our network booti wanted to show you the biosconfiguration page for this lovelydimension 2400just to give you an idea of what youmight need to do on your systemto set up network boot so if i come hereunder integrated devices i have thisnetwork interface controller which hasthe option of offon or on with pixie and we want it to beset to on with pixieand the next thing we need to do is comeup to the boot sequence and make surethatwe have the integrated nick or the niccardabove any other sort of boot option nowi could just as well take the hard driveout of this machineand it would default to that but i putit firstokay so with that let's go ahead andsave changesthough i didn't really make any andlet's boot from the networkso here you can see client address herelooking to get dhcpit has obtained its ip address and weare now to our boot menu that we createdand if we hit the tab key we canactually see that it's using the memdiskrawand it already equals dos boot imagecommand i didn't need to do that but idid do thatand now i'll press enter from here it'sgoing to load our dos boot image overthe networkokay so our image is now loaded andms-dos is now bootingand there we have it if we do a dir thiswill look very familiar to us there'sour w311rms dos and our windows installation andwe can type winand we will load windows 3.11there it is so there you have itnow one thing you will notice is it didtake a little bit of time for that imageto loadwe're actually going from wireless towireless despite the fact that my delldimension 2400 is plugged in in a wiredfashion it's actually plugged into awireless access pointso there may be some things that you cando to speed that up i did look into waysto actually speed up the protocoland it looks like with this particulartftp server using dns maskthat it does attempt to auto negotiatethe fastest protocol block size possibleso that's what we've got anyway hope youenjoyed the videouh i've always wondered what wouldhappenand how we could set this up to bootover the network and now i knowand now you know uh if you enjoyed thisplease do give it a thumbs up andsubscribe to the channel and rig thatnotification bellso you can be notified of future videosif you didn't like it feel free to giveit a thumbs downthanks for tuning in and we'll see younext time bye