--- Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> > > It does require the server to be in an
> environment
> > > were there
> > > are PXE servers available; that is not a given
> for
> > > colocated
> > > equipment.
> > 
> > haha. well, that is not an excuse for crying about
> a
> > CD/DVD rescue. ( people who encounter resistance
> to
> > setting up pxe support and necessary
> infrastructure
> > exempted but i do not think such folks will
> complain
> > anyway )
> 
> I doubt such a tone is appropriate.
> Btw, nobody "made noise" or "cried for a boot cd"
> before you arrived.
> And I doubt it will attract potential newcomers, who
> may have signed up just today.

if you cannot get yourself a network solution to
booting problems for your servers that are located
remotely, then you cannot complain about having to
boot a CD/DVD to do rescue now can you? (i am, of
course, not saying that this is the solution to the
'/usr/bin/shell' problem they were discussing)

> 
> Allow me a question: Did you ever sit in a
> plane/car/garden in front of your mobile
> workstation?
> Or rather in front of your x86 laptop?
> Where is your Grub/pxe, or
> selfcompiledGrub/NIC-specific, or (on sparc) dhcp,
> bootp, rarp, where is your boot server access then ?
> Haha.
> 

? Your mobile workstation/x86 laptop is your server?

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