aww i know whats going wonky. its proprietary vendor crapola strategies that break things. if you take ibm out of the picture and substitute them with any other 1U Tyan/iWill/Intel/Arima based server, i would have had that systemimager server up and running AND installing in 45 minutes.
and that server would be a way bigger bang for the buck. the only nice thing about ibms is the management card, which in my case of ten machines is utterly useless. thanks for the knoppix suggestion tho, i think i might take it to another level. these are 'thin' webservers. it would be interesting to brew up something that would boot from cd, mount the san stuff and start serving. thanks. GG --- Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregory Golin wrote: > > guys, i ask you to extend your experience and/or advice here. no > > beatings please, most of us are accomplished professionals. > > how would you do it? have you done it? should i just pick up a > broom > > and start swiping? > > Can you boot these things from external USB DVD or CDROM? > > If so, a KNOPPIX image plus a custom init script which goes to > network > and burns a disk image directly to disk (use dd if possible, rsync if > > not) should work. > > Granted, it's not PXE boot and configure, but the KNOPPIX disk gives > you > lots more diagnostic utilities at your disposal to figure out what is > > going wonky. > > -a > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
