On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:16:41PM -0700, Steven Piercy wrote:
So I have standard startup set to the HDD, with auto set to netboot -
then I just wake the box with a magic packet and it starts unattended
install... but after each reboot, they keep netbooting!
Sounds good. You (a) set the BIOS
i was under the impression that most BIOS'es required an input via kb to
boot from network.
not sure about IBM though...
see if you can make them boot from hd first, but get to boot from network
when doing install only(ie once)
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Steven Piercy wrote:
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004
Steven,
I am happily using PXELINUX, there is an option to drop straight out of the
menu if either caps lock or shift lock are not engaged, coupled with that I
have a local disk boot set as the default.
This does mean that you have to type a 'magic word' to launch the install,
but that has the
Michael Styne wrote:
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Steven.
On Aug 2, 2004, at 7:03 PM, Steven Piercy wrote:
What are the rest of ya's using for bootup control on systems.
Serial console is where it's at, for our purposes, anyway.
Mike
Us too. We default to pxe boot (which itself
I dont know why I would want to have serial console boots to all of our
300 client machines on site? But I do think moding the defaults pxelinux
file may be the trick im lookin for. will need a few layers of scripts
though to get the control im lookin for.
this is what i want:
- if client box
Steven Piercy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
can it be done? scripted? db needed? how do I get pxelinux to
look for an install flag for each systems mac addy? or some other type
of do install flag?
PXELINUX supports a programming environment called comboot, although
it is extremely primitive.
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Steven,
On Aug 3, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Steven Piercy wrote:
I dont know why I would want to have serial console boots to all of
our 300 client machines on site?
We're primarily a Linux shop, but do Windows installs on occasion.
Granted these are all
Michael Styne wrote:
Steven,
On Aug 3, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Steven Piercy wrote:
I dont know why I would want to have serial console boots to all of
our 300 client machines on site?
We're primarily a Linux shop, but do Windows installs on occasion.
Granted these are all rack mounted servers; sounds
