Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 01:52, Erich Titl wrote: > I was wondering if we could do some kind of hybrid set up which would fetch > packages from a server (whatever method) after booting from floppy. I > believe it should be possible to start a minimal LEAF installation, get up > the NIC's and then l

Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-19 Thread Jorn Eriksen
Eric & all, I'll be willing to help test if someone develop something :-) Jorn - Original Message - From: "Erich Titl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Berin

Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-19 Thread Erich Titl
Jorn I have some halfbred ideas how I would go about it. I wanted to tackle this for a long time, but alas, my gateway runs and I somehow hoped someone else would implement it without breaking the init stuff. My idea was to run the package download at init level 2 just after the network is up,

Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-19 Thread Jorn Eriksen
...that would be a VERRY good thing :-) Best regards Jorn - Original Message - From: "Erich Titl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE Hi Jacques/Lynn

Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-19 Thread Erich Titl
Hi Jacques/Lynn I was wondering if we could do some kind of hybrid set up which would fetch packages from a server (whatever method) after booting from floppy. I believe it should be possible to start a minimal LEAF installation, get up the NIC's and then load the big packages from the network.

Re: [leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-19 Thread Lynn Avants
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03:56 pm, Jacques Nilo wrote: > I have worked on a pxe.lrp package that is allowing booting Bering with a > PXE enabled NIC. > Walter Cardwell has been very helpful in challenging me on this idea. > I was also inspired by the scp backup scripts from Erich Great! Scratch tha

[leaf-user] Booting and installing Bering using PXE

2003-06-17 Thread Jacques Nilo
I have worked on a pxe.lrp package that is allowing booting Bering with a PXE enabled NIC. Walter Cardwell has been very helpful in challenging me on this idea. I was also inspired by the scp backup scripts from Erich Basically you can know boot Bering from a tftp server and bacup your packages