It's a decent solution when it's rolled into the pxe boot loader. In that case it's rolled directly into the network boot, which means you never have to deal with it on local media. However, it's not really a "new" thing. For instance, I have roughly 100 thin clients and another 100 thick clients in my environment and they're all set to boot from pxe. The thin clients pxe boot to either ltsp or one of the other environments I have. The thick clients have a boot loader that allows a thick client to be reimaged by the bartpe imaging environment I built for the xp workstations, or it defaults to just chain booting to the hard disk, in which case xp loads.
Chain booting has been available in grub for a long time. Rolling it into syslinux is relatively new, and that's a pretty powerful feature. On 3/9/07, Asmo Koskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Fenwick kirjoitti: > > About the only usefulness I could see is integrating it into pxe > > syslinux, disable local hard disk booting, enable only pxe boot and cd > > boots, and then when the system boots, the grub configuration would > > allow them to choose whatever load path they want to choose. > > > > > Hi Dave, that is what I am looking for. I found this page and it directs > me to that another page: > > http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/windowsntloader > > "Reboot your machine > > An operating system chooser should come up, offering Etherboot as one of > the boot options. If you run it, grub should be loaded, immediately > followed by etherboot, which should find your network card and do the > usual DHCP/TFTP steps..." > > It seems so simple - you can choose XP or direct boot via pxe just like > thin clients? > > Best regards, Asmo Koskinen. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
