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Luminary

May 06, 2024

install Bootable windows 10 off a iSCSI on ReadyNAS

Hi All, I am looking into whether I build a diskless PC with the iscsi boot drive on a the ReadyNAS. Are there any up-to-date step-by-step instructions? or know of a direction I can research on...

saudade

Luminary

May 06, 2024

Have a look at this.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/599494/how-do-i-create-a-diskless-windows-10-pc-booting-f

tigerten

Luminary

May 06, 2024

Thanks for the response.

I am still learning, just don't where to start yet.

I have i219 on-board NIC, and a i350-t2 card. The I350 is supposed to work.

Sandshark
Sensei - Experienced User
May 07, 2024
Windows loves its swap file. If that's on an iSCSI target, things are going to get rather slow. But maybe you've already thought of that.
- tigerten
  Luminary
  Jun 01, 2024
  After many hours of playing with this, I finally made some progress. I started with ReadyNAS iSCSI, i weren't able to install an OS onto it. I guess the drive was too slow and it is a RAID. I then tried on the Synology NAS just to prove I can get it to work. Here is the farthest I have it to. From here the computer would just boot into the local hard drive which is Windows OS.
  
  Intel i350-t2 does the iscs boot without issues.
  
  I am not able to install Windows onto it as the ISO installation file does not have iscsi initiator enabled and can't see the iscsi drive.
  
  I used kubuntu iso which is live environment where i can install and enable the iscsi initiator. I was able to install it onto the iscsi drive. I can see the iscsi target has two partitions, fat32 EFI and ext4 kubuntu partition.
  
  ultimately, I would like to install the windows 10. But i would first want to prove I can install something first, like Kubuntu.
  
  Any idea why the iscsi target would not boot?
  
  Thanks