Todd, I can't answer your question about the names, but wanted to bring up another possible issue that you may or may not be aware of.
Even though you can eject the drive you may not get Windows to boot up. Many PC's close the CD when they start to boot up if it is open. At least I find that Compaq hardware does that. Maybe it can be turned off in the BIOS, I'm not sure. Just an observation... James On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 14:58, Henderson, TL Todd wrote: > I'm working on a project where I plan on deploying linux on CD-ROM's to > everyone in our company so they can reboot their boxes to Linux at night, > it's windows during the day. Then during the night, I will be running a CFD > code that use MPICH, and then eject the cdrom and reboot their machines in > the mornings. The choice to go with the CD was because 1) There are > already 100 or so machines deployed and I thought it would be easier to send > out CD's than to repartition or modify them, 2) I know I can eject it and do > a automatic reboot, which should result in windows 3) building a cd and > booting from it is something my feable mind can almost understand. > > I've printed out the diskless nodes how-to and plan on going through it. > However, the one question I have is, is there a simple way to give each box > a different name. I'll use dhcp for ip addresses, but how will it get a > name? Do I need to make x number of different CD's, each so it boots as a > different host name? > > I'm not an admin type, just an engineer type trying to better utilize > company resources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any other > solutions would be appreciated also. > > Thanks. > Todd > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
