# Network booting

without GRUB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RC20ANomk

`apt install dnsmasq`

`/etc/dnsmasq.conf`

```
interface=<your interface>,lo
bind-interfaces
dhcp-range=<your interface>,192.168.11.101,192.168.11.200
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0
dhcp-match=set:efi-x86_64,option:client-arch,7
dhcp-boot=tag:efi-x86_64,syslinux.efi
enable-tftp
tftp-root=/srv/tftp
```

`mkdir -p /srv/tftp`

`apt install syslinux-common syslinux-efi`

`cd /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/efi64`

`cp ldlinux.e64 libutil.c32 menu.c32 /srv/tftp`

`cp /usr/lib/SYSLINUX.EFI/efi64/syslinux.efi /srv/tftp`

`mkdir /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg`

`/srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default`

```
UI menu.c32
LABEL FIKS OS
        MENU LABEL FIKS
        KERNEL vmlinuz
        APPEND initrd=initrd.img boot=live components netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.11.11:/srv/nfs ro root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp
        TEXT HELP
                Lmao Yeet!
        ENDTEXT
```

`systemctl restart dnsmasq.service`


`apt install nfs-kernel-server`

`mkdir -p /srv/nfs/live`

`/etc/exports`

```
/srv/nfs        *(ro,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
```

`exportfs -a`

`systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server`



## Client system

`mksquashfs / /opt/fiks-image.squashfs -e /proc /sys /dev /tmp /run /mnt /media /var/cache /var/tmp /opt`