- Apr 13, 2014
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Hey,
So I'm going to try and keep this as short as possible. Basically, I found that some of the computers in the house I live in has an option for booting in the BIOS called "Network Boot" or "PXE." I decided to research it, and it's apparently a way you can let a computer that has the option boot from a network drive. My last computer recently broke, and I was left with no computers that were my own computer. There were still computers in the house I live in, but they were owned by my family, and if I was even allowed to get onto one of their computers, I was restricted and all I could do is browse the web. However, I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running Raspian, a stripped down version of Debian compatible with the Raspberry Pi, and one of the things I used it for was for a network drive. I decided I want to use it for a bootable network drive to install Linux Mint on, so that I could use my Linux workstation on any available computer in the house and be able to do whatever I wanted since all apps I install and whatnot would be stored on the network drive, not the internal drive. The only computer that doesn't have the Network Boot option was my dad's Dell OptiPlex, but I don't even use it since it can't do much for my needs. I moved the files I had on my network drive from the network drive to a place where it would be safe on the Raspberry Pi, and I started to research how to create and use a PXE drive, but I couldn't find any simplified version. I am a pretty huge nerd when it comes to computers, but I couldn't understand anything I found. So I want to ask how do I use PXE? I just want to install Linux Mint on my network drive and boot from it. How do I do that? I'm looking for a simple answer that doesn't require me to read something as long as a Harry Potter book.
Thanks,
DontEvenAskMeMyUsername
So I'm going to try and keep this as short as possible. Basically, I found that some of the computers in the house I live in has an option for booting in the BIOS called "Network Boot" or "PXE." I decided to research it, and it's apparently a way you can let a computer that has the option boot from a network drive. My last computer recently broke, and I was left with no computers that were my own computer. There were still computers in the house I live in, but they were owned by my family, and if I was even allowed to get onto one of their computers, I was restricted and all I could do is browse the web. However, I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running Raspian, a stripped down version of Debian compatible with the Raspberry Pi, and one of the things I used it for was for a network drive. I decided I want to use it for a bootable network drive to install Linux Mint on, so that I could use my Linux workstation on any available computer in the house and be able to do whatever I wanted since all apps I install and whatnot would be stored on the network drive, not the internal drive. The only computer that doesn't have the Network Boot option was my dad's Dell OptiPlex, but I don't even use it since it can't do much for my needs. I moved the files I had on my network drive from the network drive to a place where it would be safe on the Raspberry Pi, and I started to research how to create and use a PXE drive, but I couldn't find any simplified version. I am a pretty huge nerd when it comes to computers, but I couldn't understand anything I found. So I want to ask how do I use PXE? I just want to install Linux Mint on my network drive and boot from it. How do I do that? I'm looking for a simple answer that doesn't require me to read something as long as a Harry Potter book.
Thanks,
DontEvenAskMeMyUsername
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