Turns out the two PXE servers I built do totally different things and really
should be called PXE based Install Servers AND I can imagine a third which
might more properly be described as a PXE Boot Server. BTW, for those who
do not know, PXE stands for Pre-eXecution Environment and really does
This has been a standard technique in Unix [BSD, AIX, Solaris and
HP-UX] for diskless servers since the early days (pre-Linus).
In linux PXE booting from servers is best supported via LTSP project:
http://www.ltsp.org/
http://www.kegel.com/linux/pxe.html
Another setup I think works pretty well is thinstation
http://www.thinstation.org/
It's used to boot into a really minimal version of linux that connects
directly to a remote server through rdp, vnc. ssh, ect
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote:
This has
This might be interestingly relevant as well:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ltsp/index.php?title=Ltsp_BootingFromLocalDevice
its a branch from LTSP however for old machines that don't have PXE functions.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Paul Mooring drpppr...@gmail.com wrote:
Another
Great references. Thanks Lisa! I may not live long enough to read all that
they refer to though. :)
I should have realized that my number 3 was basically the thin client idea.
I just never looked into that side to see it was (or coould be) based on
PXE.
I still wonder about building a PXE
Dazed_75 wrote:
What I would like to see for method #1 is that the .iso files were
retained for use in burning discs either on the PXE server or a client
on the net (not a PXE function) AND might be mounted by the PXE server
function rather than having to extract files when building the
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote:
Dazed_75 wrote:
What I would like to see for method #1 is that the .iso files were
retained for use in burning discs either on the PXE server or a client
on the net (not a PXE function) AND might be mounted by the PXE
From: Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com
[loopback mounting of ISOs]
And since there could be many such .iso's to mount are there any
limits on the number of mounts, or mounted files, or One might
need to mount on demand to reduce some resource usage. There is so
much to learn I could almost
