Network boot for diskless rigs
Documentation https://forum.hiveos.farm/t/hive-os-diskless-pxe/12319
Requires : sudo, xz-utils, pxz
apt-get install -yqq sudo xz-utils pxz
For installation directly from the GitHub, execute the following command in the terminal:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minershive/hiveos-pxe-diskless/master/pxe-setup.sh && sudo bash pxe-setup.sh
cd path_to_pxeserver
Type ./deploy_pxe ubuntu18 --build.
This command create new hiveramfs image in pxeserver/hiveramfs/ folder. Rootfs stored in pxeserver/build/ubuntu18/_fs.
Try ./deploy_pxe --help for see more options
If you need support Nvidia cards, use ./deploy_pxe nvidia list for list all avaliable drivers and ./deploy_pxe nvidia --build <VER> to create nvidia-.tar.xz image.
This image will be stored in pxeserver/hiveramfs/nvidia folder.
Below part deprecated and will be removed in next release!!! Important note: the file system archive is splitting into several files. Due to github restrictions on file size. In case you clone or download this repository yourself - you need to collect parts of the archive back into one file:
cat pxeserver/hiveramfs/x* > pxeserver/hiveramfs/hiveramfs.tar.xz