>I've pretty much got this setup and working.
>
>What I'd like to hear from the group is what solutions people have come 
>up with for automating kicking off the re-installation of a machine.
>
>On SPARC, I would have typed, or scripted:
>
>  reboot -- 'net - install'
>
>On X86 I'm not sure how I can achieve the same functionality?
>
>So far I don't like the only idea I've come up with:
> 
>Configure the BIOS to always boot from the net first, and only configure 
>the boot server to respond to that host when a re-install is desired. - 
>This just seems backwards to me, I've always left the boot server 
>configured all the time, and had the client request the install while 
>rebooting.
>(That's not to mention the extending the boot time waiting for PXE to 
>time out.)
>
>Anyone have any other ideas?


I generally interact with the systems when this is needed; I have one
system, I think, which has the "reboot temporarily from other device"
ipmitool option working (that would be an X4200, I think)

Casper
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