Re: [gentoo-cluster] Network Booting

2008-03-25 Thread chrosken
Can someone please give me a hand on this issue. Thank you. chrosken wrote: Hi, We have a clusters of machine and would like to setup network booting. At this time, we have to go to the data center and boot the machine manually. We would like to manage it as best as we could where we

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Network Booting

2008-03-25 Thread Alex Howells
On 25/03/2008, chrosken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please give me a hand on this issue. Thank you. You will need to consider OOB access to the servers via serial console, or perhaps iLo2 / DRAC (HP and Dell); having a way to remotely powercycle the boxes is also a pretty neat

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Network Booting

2008-03-25 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 20:01 Tue 25 Mar , Alex Howells wrote: On 25/03/2008, chrosken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please give me a hand on this issue. Thank you. Next step is to setup DHCP as your boxes need to grab a valid lease; their BIOSes need to be configure to boot off the network

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Network Booting

2008-01-25 Thread Ramon van Alteren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 chrosken wrote: | We have a clusters of machine and would like to setup network booting. At | this time, we have to go to the data center and boot the machine manually. | We would like to manage it as best as we could where we can save time and |

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Network Booting

2008-01-25 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 15:45 Thu 24 Jan , chrosken wrote: Hi, Hello, We have a clusters of machine and would like to setup network booting. At this time, we have to go to the data center and boot the machine manually. We would like to manage it as best as we could where we can save time and money. I

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Network Booting

2008-01-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 09:31 Fri 25 Jan , Ramon van Alteren wrote: I remember seeing a demo from yamin at a gentoo UK conference demoing netbooting with a genkernel kernel That's the genkernel-4 code. I've used it for diskless setups and it works quite nicely. It's living on gentooexperimental.org at the

[gentoo-cluster] Network Booting

2008-01-24 Thread chrosken
Hi, We have a clusters of machine and would like to setup network booting. At this time, we have to go to the data center and boot the machine manually. We would like to manage it as best as we could where we can save time and money. I heard network booting is a good way to go. I'm not sure how