steve.. thanks for the reply... and yeah.. i got the humour... and i had looked through some of the PXE links/info. wasn't really sure if this is really what i need. my concern is that what ever solution i use be completely secure... and to be honest, i'm not sure how PXE implements a secure process. a link that i saw, seemed to indicate that a board that supports PXE will accept (at boot/install time) a given sequence of certain chars, that are directed towards the server. these chars could then apparently be used to start the boot process/load the OS into the box... i'll need to do further research, but this doesn't appear to be secure.. i was assuming that there needs to be a way of configuring the box, to only allow the OS to be installed from a certain IP/range of IP addresses. thanks -bruce -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Phillips Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:01 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: booting up/installing linux... On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, bruce wrote: > ok ed... > > i'm curious... can you walk me through the basic steps to take a vanilla > system, with no floppy/cd drive and get it to load up via ethernet/internet, > from a remote server?? > > i have a system.. > i turn it on... > and then what do i do..?? > Fire up a normally network connected PC Open a web browser and goto google. type into the search box "linux PXE boot howto" select the first link start reading. Quite easy when you get used to it.. :-) (NB: this is rather tounge in cheek, not ment as an insult, PXE and remote booting is quite a complex subject and there are many very useful howto's on the net that cover off this subject in great detail) -- Steve. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
