On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jason Spatafore wrote:
Sorry about the delay -- I've been travelling, just returned,
and am ploughing through the email compost heap ...
1. I would like to use a system where servers can be
PXEBooted to the network.
doable for any reasonable hardware, thanks in part the
At work I use a DRBL server (Ubuntu 7.10) to push images of Windows to
machines in a lab where I train technicians. All the Machines boot
PXE to see if an image is waiting and if there is they grab it and
then boot to that.
Hope this helps
Brian
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, James Mcphee
This may trigger some discussion and I've been researching it for days
now. It sounds like it is impossible but I wanted to utilize all my
resources. PLUG is a resource. :)
So, here's the situation.
1. I would like to use a system where servers can be PXEBooted to the network.
2. The system
It's theoretically possible to do something like this with PXE boot loading
up a mini OS. Then that mini OS runs as part of its init scripts a menu
system that does what you're talking about. That's basically what jumpstart
and kickstart do.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Jason Spatafore
