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• Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2025

  I also netboot Windows this way! To run a 20 machines in my house off the same base disk image, which we use for LAN parties. I have code and an extensive guide on GitHub:

  https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty

  It looks like Terin actually figured out something I failed at, though: installing Windows directly over iSCSI from the start. I instead installed to a local device, and then transferred the disk image to the server. I knew that building a WinPE environment with the right network drivers would probably help here, but I got frustrated trying to use the WinPE tools, which seemed to require learning a lot of obscure CLI commands (ironically, being Windows...).

  Terin observed some slowness using Windows over the network. I did too, when I was doing it with 1G LAN, but I've found on 10G it pretty much feels the same as local.

  BTW, a frustrating thing: The Windows 10->11 updater also seemingly fails to include network drivers and so you can't just upgrade over iSCSI. I'm still stuck on Windows 10 so I'm going to have to reinstall everything from scratch sometime this year. Maybe I'll follow Terin's guide to use WinPE this time.

• Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2024

  I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]:

  > If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos.

  Hopefully I did that?

  Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub:

  https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty

  Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize!

  [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

• [Help/Suggestion] Distribution that acts as a middle man for PXE/netboot/Using custom stuff on shared computers
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 5 Jun 2021

  This guy did something that you might find useful. He did it to host lan parties, but I think it could be applicable in a bunch of situations.

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