Boot windows from network?

[Dan Egli]

Hey folks, question. I'm preparing to build a small home network. If
possible, I'd really rather all the computers boot from the server
rather than a local drive. However, despite my searching, I can't seem
to find a way to do that. My first thought was iSCSI, but from what I've
read (and maybe I'm mistaken) that would require a separate iSCSI
"drive" for each computer. Thanks, but no thanks. May as well go back to
individual drives for each computer. So I thought maybe it would be
possible to install onto a samba share and use iPXE or something similar
to boot from there. But I can't find anything for that. I see plenty of
documents showing how to INSTALL from a samba share, but nothing on how
to BOOT INTO THE OS from a samba share.

I know that on Windows Servers you can setup a common network boot
image, so how do I do that on Linux?

Thanks!

-- 
Dan Egli
On my Test server

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   Hey folks, question. I'm preparing to build a small home network. If
   possible, I'd really rather all the computers boot from the server
   rather than a local drive. However, despite my searching, I can't seem
   to find a way to do that. My first thought was iSCSI, but from what
   I've read (and maybe I'm mistaken) that would require a separate iSCSI
   "drive" for each computer. Thanks, but no thanks. May as well go back
   to individual drives for each computer. So I thought maybe it would be
   possible to install onto a samba share and use iPXE or something
   similar to boot from there. But I can't find anything for that. I see
   plenty of documents showing how to INSTALL from a samba share, but
   nothing on how to BOOT INTO THE OS from a samba share.

   I know that on Windows Servers you can setup a common network boot
   image, so how do I do that on Linux?

   Thanks!
--
Dan Egli
On my Test server
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