Re: Dual Booting linux thin client or windows
Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to dual boot into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it. I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will boot off a server on my network. Could you not have /boot on a small local partition or USB flashdrive with a full GRUB menu allowing selection of OS, then all the other linux partitions could be mounted over NFS? I want to do exactly the same thing with my HTPCs so I'm watching this tread with interest, keep us informed on how it goes. Good Luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Booting linux thin client or windows
Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to dual boot into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it. I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will boot off a server on my network. Yes, it is possible, but I'm not familiar enough with how to explain it. (I kept waiting for someone else to respond to your post) Years ago I booted Sparc machines this way for the installation process. Some years after that I tinkered with Knoppix which has (or at least had) the capability built-in and ready-to-go. Around the same time I tried to get a school lab to work this way, but was never successful, I think because the PXE server was on a different virtual LAN and the documentation at the time was insufficient for me to figure things out before I had to give up. But I do know it CAN work. Google is probably your friend in this case. I'd search for debian pixie boot or debian thin client or something similar. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Booting linux thin client or windows
Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to dual boot into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it. Most modern BIOSes can boot from a network PXE server. What you'd do is configure your BIOS to boot first from the PXE server, and then if that process fails or is canceled with a user's keypress, it was fail-over to boot from the hard drive (or CDROM, or USB device, etc etc etc) and thereby start up your other OS. I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will boot off a server on my network. Once the BIOS finds the PXE server and starts booting from it, I believe you can have the PXE serve out whatever you want, such as the startup of a Debian boot, or the normally earlier stage of GRUB menu, which would give your users the ability to pick-and-choose from a menu which OS they want to load. Again, I haven't done this, so don't know the specifics of doing it, but I am confident it can be done. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Booting linux thin client or windows
On 10/09/2007 08:36 AM, Kent West wrote: Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to dual boot into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will boot off a server on my network. Once the BIOS finds the PXE server and starts booting from it, I believe you can have the PXE serve out whatever you want, such as the startup of a Debian boot, or the normally earlier stage of GRUB menu, which would give your users the ability to pick-and-choose from a menu which OS they want to load. A while back for the VMWare appliance competition, I created a pxelinux installer / rescue VM using the same technology and some of the tricks we use in our production data center installers (it does not have a debian installer, I know..). You can set up a short timeout of pxelinux to boot from hard disk by default, if there is no option chosen from the menu. In the case of this VM, it waits forever, but if you just hit ENTER, it boots from disk. Feel free to grab it and rip apart the pxelinux or any other configurations - thought this might inspire a few PXE ideas. http://pbandjelly.net/vmware_challenge/ -- Kind Regards, Michael Shuler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual Booting linux thin client or windows
Is it possible to dual boot into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it. I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will boot off a server on my network. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
