A great tool for installfests would be the Ultimate Deployment Appliance, a free VMware appliance that has everything you need for PXE booting unattended installs of Windows, Linux, Solaris, even ESX Server.
http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/ You could run the appliance on a laptop running VMware Workstation, Player or Server and the install images on the E450. :) I've used this appliance before. Great piece of software. :] On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM, <crash...@gmail.com> wrote: > By the way, I am glad this topic has caused a flurry of activity amongst > the group. > > I was going to sell my Sun Enterprise 450 server. However, this mini-fridge > size server may be better suited for holding some 320GB drives with images > loaded on them. Hell, the server can hold 20 separate SCSI hard drives. It > has 4x 400MHz cpus with 4GB of memory for it. Who wants to host some images? > Howard, I wish I knew you had those hard drives. > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville, Tennessee USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
