Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/11/20 6:46 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > On 12/11/2020 3:01 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> PXE booting is usually done to install a base image to a machine.  If >> you want to PXE boot and run diskless clients, you may have to shuffle >> some things into the initrd and change systemd service dependenci

Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/11/20 11:12 PM, James Simister wrote: > Maybe I did > something wrong or had something misconfigured, but I had a pretty decent > core i7 machine with 16G ram (fastest in my house) but the KDE desktop felt > closer to my cheapo Celeron laptop from 20 years ago I doubt you did something wrong

Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Kyle Waters
On 12/11/20 11:12 PM, James Simister wrote: That sounds like a perfect use of puppet/chef/salt, although I do see the Forgot to mention in my last email I also used salt. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the peng

Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Kyle Waters
Who said anything about machine specific? I'm looking at the idea of having 25-50 machines, identical hardware, identical software, identical uses. Only difference between them would be 1) hostname, 2) ip and 3) specific SET of data being processed. When I was in a similar situation I st