On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 11:46:39AM -0400, Alex Aminoff wrote: > > On 10/7/2016 11:02 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Can you install a tiny boot partition containing etherboot/gpxe > > (http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos) which will then try to PXE > > boot indefinitely? It fits on a floppy or tiny USB, too. > > > That would be a backup plan if we can not find something that fits in just > the MBR. The local HDs already have partitions on them, they could be > re-partitioned to create space for a small partition as you suggest, but > that would be a hassle. We have also thought of using a USB stick, but those > are unreliable and we would have to buy and configure 20-30 USB sticks.
USB sticks that you don't write to are often reliable for years. $10 apiece, total 30; two hours of your time to configure and test and reboot and test and reboot and... then you have an image; presumably no per-stick config, so writing the image to all of them is going to take about an hour or so more. If a consultant said "For $300 and three hours of your time, I can solve your problem" would you pay that? -dsr- _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
