On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Which got me thinking about stuff like taking dhcp off the cheap
router we're currently using, which eventually lead to thinking
about setting up a boot server with OS installers and utility discs.
On 2016-09-09 13:12, James Mcphee wrote:
possibly a PXE boot setup where you don't have to have disks on your
compute nodes at all. You'd store a boot kernel and initrd in a tftp
target and that'd get your boxen up far enough to mount and finish
booting to their remote disk.
Like many things, it depends on the details. What OSes are you going
to be installing? Some distros like Fedora have kernel images/initrd
files/stuff already set up for PXE-booting. Gentoo doesn't, which seems
a little odd, but https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_alternatives
explains how to make this possible. Both "PXE-booting the installer and
installing to a local disk" and "PXE-booting the installer and having /
on NFS" are covered. The second thing is more difficult. The concepts
in that URL may be transferrable to other distros.
I am not sure whether random utility CDs would support PXE-booting or
not. Try it and see?
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