Boot/install Linux from WDS

Software & Web Applications
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This might be a well known topic, but not to me. Apparently you can boot Linux distros from a WDS (Window Deployment Services). Why? Because it can be handy to have a rescue disk on your WDS to fix some client issues. Why not just a regular PXE boot server? Because if you are primarily dealing with rolling out Windows desktop, WDS would be easier. No idea if this works on SCCM, I don’t have access to our SCCM.

Going to drop 2 links I found as a placeholder for when I get the time to try this out in my lab:

I’ll report back if/when I get this working.

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Wouldn’t it be easier to use cloudinit to deploy your linux VM’s? It should be able to provision everything you need.

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Not actually deploying things so much as an easy way for me to get a rescue disk loaded, at least for my use case.