Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 05:13:42PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/20/18 5:05 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +0000, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > > > > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to
> > > > > boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-based
> > > > > CD/DVD drives. I'd love to replace them with newer systems but am unable
> > > > > to unless they actually die an ugly and permanent death. I have to
> > > > > justify the cost and replacing them "just because they're old" doesn't
> > > > > fly with our cost accountants. I'm stuck with them.
> > > > Do they not support PXE booting?  If not, can you boot a CD that contains a PXE boot loader?
> > > > 
> > > PXE boot????  Set up a PXE server?  And that has to be on the local subnet
> > > or you have to set up forwarding on your router?  YIKES!
> > No it does not have to be on the same subnet, nor does it need any special forwarding on the router.  All you need is a couple DHCP options set on your DHCP server and a TFTP server anywhere on your network to hold the pxelinux.0 and vmlinuz/initrd images.
> 
> Oh yes.  DHCP option.  Shows how long ago I did it and forgot this. My bad.
> 
> > 
> > > But then I have avoided PXE boot for a decade or more for the above reasons.
> > You've been missing out.  I love being able to boot today's rawhide without waiting for any media to burn.
> 
> When I get an affordable armv8 board, I will revisit this.

There is also iPXE which can boot over the Internet from a CD-ROM:

http://ipxe.org/start

And this, but I'm not sure it is being updated anymore:

https://boot.fedoraproject.org/index
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