at the ostc david has some disk mirroring server set up, I cannot remember the name of it, but it can image a harddrive over a network and store it on a server. You can then restore the hard drive onto any number of workstations. he uses it to replicate setups and restore machines to a known state.
plan: 1. setup knoppix via knx-hdinstall onto the machine with a cdrom. 2. mirror said machine to the server. 3. install on cdrom-less workstations. 4. after the fest david can re-image with the setup of his choice. 5. guest compile boxes are assumed to have a cdrom. On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:27:23+1200 Matthew Gregan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:37:37PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > Etherboot? > > Yes, I'm sure it's possible but from a cd or cd image? > > Remember that it's for one day only, so it's not worth hooting > > around for weeks. Do you know how? Or would you like to spend the > > time to find out? > > It shouldn't be too difficult. It might be easier with LTSP than the > Gentoo or Knoppix CDs, since it is gear towards booting effectively > diskless machines (as we don't want to touch the disks inside these > OTSC machines). > > Configure a DHCP server on a machine, mount the Knoppix or Gentoo Live > CD on that (or another) machine on the network and export this via > NFS. > > Build an Etherboot floppy that will boot from an NFS mount. Use this > to boot the OTSC machines from the NFS-exported Knoppix CD. > > Of course, it's not quite as simple as outlined above--it does need to > be tested and there are likely to be a few things that will need to be > sorted out or at least known about beforehand so they're expected and > easily worked around. > > Once I get a copy of the latest verison of Knoppix, and if I have > time, I'll throw together a proof of concept to test the process. > > Cheers, > -mjg > -- > Matthew Gregan |/ > /| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --
