PXE boot Chromium OS?

[Dang Ren 柏當仁 Bo]

I have some XP labs (currently using disk freeze hardware) which our GApps school could convert to Chromium OS, but instead of having an installed OS, I would prefer to boot over the network and store user files in a tmpfs, discarded on reboot. Has anyone tried this? Gotten it to work?

[Mike Frysinger]

we have devs doing PXE boot and an NFS root, but only one-offs for development.  i don't think anyone has looked at doing large scale deployments.

-mike

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Dang Ren 柏當仁 Bo <boda...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have some XP labs (currently using disk freeze hardware) which our GApps school could convert to Chromium OS, but instead of having an installed OS, I would prefer to boot over the network and store user files in a tmpfs, discarded on reboot. Has anyone tried this? Gotten it to work?

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[david...@staff.craven.k12.nc.us]

Mike, I would be interested in doing this in a large environment. Could you provide me with some details as to how they are going about doing this?

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David Lupton

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[Mike Frysinger]

if you search dev.chromium.org for "nfs", the top few hits should cover things.  be warned that they might be a little stale ...

-mike

[Stephen Gale]

I've been looking at similar scenario as well.  A fellow Director of IT is using Citrix's Provisioning Services to assign VDI images to each device based on MAC address.  He's doing what you want to do, but with Windows 7/8 instead. Theoretically, if you set up a "Golden Image" using the hardware of your lab and Chromium as the OS, it would work.  I can talk to him about doing a test scenario.

If you were able to find a PXE solution, I'd love to hear about it.

[Waterfront Steve]

Hi Stephen,

I have also been working on the scenario to connect old 'diskless' XP machines to a purpose built 'server' running chrome OS.  The idea is to have the thin client machines connect to chrome os over the LAN using iPXE to flash the rom on a compatible network card (http://ipxe.org/howto/romburning).  You mentioned a 'Golden Image' of Chrome OS. Does this enable multiple thin clients to connect simultaneously or do we need to build a box with multiple Chrome OS VDI images for each thin client?

I would be interested to hear how you went with the test scenario.

Steve

[Stephen Gale]

The solution that my cohort is using would allow one VDI to mount on multiple devices.  When I approached him on setting up a Chromium OS for a test image, he said he was busy this summer and may try it once school starts (as mentioned before, he's a Windows/Citrix shop).

On Sunday, March 9, 2014 6:54:24 AM UTC-6, Dang Ren 柏當仁 Bo wrote: