RouterOS Netinstall

This skill focuses on official Netinstall / netinstall-cli behavior. tikoci/netinstall is a useful wrapper and source of grounded examples, but it is only one way to drive the tool.

What netinstall-cli Does

Netinstall reinstalls RouterOS onto a device that has booted into etherboot mode. The Linux tool, netinstall-cli, listens for BOOTP requests and then sends the RouterOS boot image and selected .npk packages.

Grounded behavior from MikroTik docs:

• Netinstall re-formats the system drive
• It does not erase the RouterOS license key
• It does not reset RouterBOOT settings
• It works over a direct Layer 2 path using BOOTP/DHCP ports and TFTP
• It requires root / sudo

netinstall-cli is the Linux command-line variant. The Windows GUI exposes nearly the same core options.

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