----- Original Message ----- | ----- Original Message ----- | | On Friday 25 Mar 2011 06:58:12 James A. Peltier wrote: | | > Is there a similar chainload method that can be utilized outside | | > of | | > EFI? | | > I'll look into the SDK to see how I can mould it into what I want. | | | | Could you describe what you want to do with iPXE in a bit more | | detail? | | Assume | | that I know absolutely nothing about Deploy Studio. | | | | Michael | | Currently we use Deploy Studio on USB or CD/DVD to boot Apple | Macintosh machines to install or capture disk images (mainly install) | for computer labs. I have a iPXE based installation server that can | currently deploy all operating systems we support with the exception | of Apple OS X. | | I would like to be able to take these machines and iSCSI boot the | DeployStudio image because it will be much faster than AFS, NFS, HTTP | or basically any other method. It is also far more consistent because | we can ensure that all Macs are booting the most current version of | the DeployStudio package that we build. This has one other advantage, | we don't have to have Mac servers specific to this task, just to the | building of the images. | | We also have other plans for iSCSI feature sets for Apple hardware and | since I am familiar with iPXE it's kind of a good fit if we can make | it work. | | -- | James A. Peltier | IT Services - Research Computing Group | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus | Phone : 778-782-6573 | Fax : 778-782-3045 | E-Mail : [email protected] | Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices | http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier | | | _______________________________________________ | ipxe-devel mailing list | [email protected] | https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
BTW: This might prove interesting to you Michael https://www.math.osu.edu/oldwiki/administration/macosx/netboot/bsdp_with_isc_dhcp -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : [email protected] Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
