iperezx / pi-pxeboot

pi-pxeboot

Raspberry Pi PXE boot configuation for both client and server.

PXE Boot without Docker

Client:

bash client/setupClient.sh
sudo reboot

Server:

bash server/setupServer.sh
sudo reboot

Install Docker

Install

curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sh get-docker.sh
sudo usermod -aG docker pi

Install docker-compose

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip
sudo apt-get remove python-configparser
sudo pip3 install docker-compose

Create a docker base image for Raspberry Pi Lite OS

Setting up the docker base container (base on raspberry pi lite os):

apt-get install -y wget unzip git
wget -O ospilite.zip https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf_latest
sudo mkdir $HOME/ospilite/

sudo unzip ospilite.zip -d $HOME/ospilite/
LOOPDIR=$(sudo losetup --show -fP $HOME/ospilite/2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.img)

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/rootfs
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/boot

sudo mount ${LOOPDIR}p1 /mnt/boot
sudo mount ${LOOPDIR}p2 /mnt/rootfs

sudo tar -C /mnt/rootfs -czpf ospilite.tar.gz --numeric-owner .
sudo tar -C /mnt/boot -czpf boot.tar.gz --numeric-owner .

sudo docker build -t iperezx/ospilite:latest -f Dockerfile.ospilite .
sudo docker run -it iperezx/ospilite:latest bash

Note that ${LOOPDIR}p1 is the boot config files and ${LOOPDIR}p2 is the root filesystem. This was tested on both a Raspberry PI 4b 4GB and NVIDIA NX Board.

Docker containers for pxe boot setup

Create custom nfs server:

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/iperezx/nfs-server-alpine.git
cd nfs-server-alpine
sudo docker build -t iperezx/nfs:latest .

Create docker containers:

docker-compose up -d --build

Cleanup:

docker-compose down && docker volume rm docker_nfs-data