On Jan 23, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Luke S Crawford wrote: > If you are using windows, or some other OS that requires such relics, > I agree. > > However, on Linux, everything can be PXE-booted. Yes, even your dos > firmware images can be PXE-booted.
Converting the standard ISOs distributed by hardware and software vendors into PXEbootable stuff isn't always easy/supported. Also, when what you need is "mount the CD image after the OS is already booted" PXE isn't very useful. So, I'll stand by my statement, and we should just acknowledge that there's room for disagreement on the topic, depending on what's important in a person's environment. For me, personally, if all I had was serial consoles to my Linux farm at a new gig, the first CapX I'd be filing for would be either LOM upgrades (if possible/easy) or KVM-over-IP w/virtual-media (like the Avocent DSR line). D _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
