Hmm, sounds similar to what I'm doing here, except for the syslinux part. Greg On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:23:01PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Here's a brief report on PXE from last night's DC LUG. > > An audio recording was made and will, hopefully, be available in a nice, > compressed, digital format soon. > > PXE is an Intel standard and is probably present on most NICs out there > today because it's been around for about 5 years. > > NASA Goddard uses it when they need to reboot their clusters--though > they've learned to stagger reboots because having all the hundreds of > machines they control come up at the same time doesn't work. > > PXE requires a PXE capable nic and an appropriate bios setting. That > bios setting might be (do just the next boot over PXE) or "do all boots > using PXE." > > The first client server exchange is a dhcp negotiation which is also > capable of passing additional data, such as what file to load next. > > The next step is executing pxelinux which is a lot like, and is created > by, the same people who do syslinux. And, you get to pass config data > the same way, too. > > After that, the boot can continue over tftp. > > Example configs, etc., will be on the LUG web site soon. > > PS: Here are some useful links I've found about PXE and Linux: > > http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php > http://theo.me.uk/pages.shtml?page=remoteboot > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
