--- "Childers, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Childers, Matthew" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] PXE booting w/ multiple > servers > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:41:00 -0500 > > We are a school district who is in the process of > testing LTSP. So far > we are impressed, but we have one issue that would > really be beneficial > if we could solve. We currently use Altiris > Deployment Solutions for > imaging clients throughout the district. Typically > when a client in the > field needs re-imaged, we will PXE boot that client > and Image it via > Altiris' PXE Server. Now that we have set up LTSP > and are PXE booting > w/ it, we have found that we have to exclude the mac > address of each > thin client in the Altiris PXE Server, so that it > will actually boot > from the Linux Server. We could work around this > and separate the thin > clients on their own subnet, but one of the things > we like is that if a > computers hard-drive crashes, while waiting on a > replacement, we could > simply set it in the bios to PXE boot, and that > machine would be a thin > client until we could replace the hard drive. But > we also like the > ability to image a machine via PXE. So I guess we > would like to have > our cake and eat it too. What I was thinking is if > we could do > something where the user was prompted during PXE > boot whether to boot to > linux, or boot to Altiris Image Deployment. Have a > 5 second timeout > that would boot it to Linux Terminal Server if no > action was taken. Is > there anything like this, or has anyone run into > this situation? If so, > please share what you are doing, or have done. Any > ideas are > appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance, > Matt > > Hello, I don't know about Altiris, but I can give you some hints on pxe booting. You can edit the pxelinux.cfg and specify the image you will boot from. But you have to edit your DHCP configuration that you like to boot from pxelinux.0. Etherboot floppies could even be use to boot pxelinux. To know more about pxelinux visit their project site. __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
