Ok folks. It's pretty clear that Matt and I have a difference of
opinion here. I can either spend more time trying to deal with what I
see as FUD, or actually do the work, and I'm picking the latter.
Yes, I'm aware of what people are currently doing inre: diskless
booting.
No, I don't plan
> My question boils down to: Will I be able to re-install a machine
> using your new i386 netboot just as easily as I can now? Or will I
> have to be physically present at each machine & diddle with the bios
> to toggle between disk & netboots? And what if the NIC doesn't
> support PXE? Am I
Mike,
I'm not trying to contribute to the FUD, rather I'm just trying to
understand what you're proposing and what effect it will have on my
current environment.
Right now we have an OS research cluster of 30+ Pentium II machines.
These machines are used for both real research & for class proj
