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Booting Your OS using Ethernet

KL4932 edited this page May 5, 2017 · 4 revisions

Booting Your OS on another PC using Ethernet

Requirements

  • CCBoot

  • Ethernet Cable or Patch Cable or LAN Cable

CCBoot Installation

  • First Buy CCBoot or Download it, the link is on the top, after downloading, open Setup and click Next select CCBoot Server installation and click Next, Next, Next check Create a desktop icon if it’s not checked click Next, Install, after Installation Click Close.

LAN Configuration

  • Right click on Network Icon, click on Open Network and Sharing Center plug your Ethernet Cable on your laptop, and on the other PC that you want it to boot your OS, wait until you see Ethernet Icon, Click on Ethernet and Click on Properties, scroll down until you find Internet Protocol Version 4(TCP/IPv4) Select it and Click Properties, and check Use the following IP Address Put IP Address to 192.168.0.2 and Mask 255.255.255.0, Click OK, Close, Close.

Your OS Configuration

  • Open your OS Project click on OSNameBoot, like i named my OS ChampionOS, boot project will be ChampionsOSBoot right click on your OSNameBoot and click Properties, Choose ISO Image Profile and Save, now build your project if it has build successfully using ISO Image Profile, a window path will pop-up, don’t close it.

CCBoot Configuration

  • After running CCBoot, click Options, select DHCP Settings, now go to DHCP Server IP and select 192.168.0.2 Make sure you plugged the LAN Cable, Now type on IP Allocated Start 192.168.0.101, IP Allocated End 192.168.0.254, IP Mask 255.255.255.0. IP Gateway 5.5.5.1. DNS Address 1 192.168.0.2 and DNS Address 2 Nothing, Click OK and go to Image Manager, Click Add Image Icon and type in your Image Name MyOS, and press …​ and select your OSNameBoot.ISO the ISO that was on that path you can find it on %UserProfile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\OSName\OSName\bin\Debug\OSNameBoot.iso, after you put the ISO path click OK now go to Default Group and delete everything on it, press right click and choose Add Client check Status, Computer Name whatever, Skip Group, IP Address 192.168.0.101, MAC Address To Get PC’s Client Network Mac Address Go to the other PC and right click on Network Icon, Open Network And Sharing Center, Click on Ethernet and press Details, the Physical Address will be like this XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX change the '-' to ':' like this 12-34-56-78-90-12 to 12:34:56:78:90:12 and put it in MAC Address Text Box, put the Gateway 5.5.5.1, DNS1 192.168.0.2, Skip DNS2, Image select your Image Name MyOS, 1st Server 192.168.0.2, PXE select isoboot, And There you are, Click OK and you’re DONE

Now Press Start Icon if it’s not Started and boot up your PC

Enable Network Boot

  1. To Boot your OS using Ethernet, press a key that let you enter the BIOS Setup it should be (Esc, Delete, F1, F2, F3, F5, F6, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12, Tab) Or You’ll gonna find a text typed on it Press (key) to enter the bios setup or whatever it is.

  2. Go To Boot Tab and Find Network Boot it may be [Disabled], if it’s disabled then Change it to [Enabled] and then put the network booting the first in boot order and there you are save the bios.

Finally

  • if you put the network booting the first in boot order, you shall see some texts just let it finishes wait for it until Cosmos Boot up, And that’s it

Network Booting is better than USB

because you can change a code, build the os, don’t forget to power off the other pc to let visual studio delete the other builds, and then until the ISO Window Path pop-up just run the other pc, and you can see the change you did

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