"Derek J. Balling" <[email protected]> writes: > Converting the standard ISOs distributed by hardware and software vendors > into PXEbootable stuff isn't always easy/supported.
This is true. Personally, though, I almost never actually use ISOs except when installing one-off desktops. I usually get drivers from more up-to-date sources. (If I used vendor supplied drivers, this might be different.) > Also, when what you need is "mount the CD image after the OS is already > booted" PXE isn't very useful. Right, but mount -oloop /path/to/nfs/volume/yadayada.iso /cdrom works just fine in that case, or even copying the iso locally and mounting it. > So, I'll stand by my statement, and we should just acknowledge that there's > room for disagreement on the topic, depending on what's important in a > person's environment. For me, personally, if all I had was serial consoles to > my Linux farm at a new gig, the first CapX I'd be filing for would be either > LOM upgrades (if possible/easy) or KVM-over-IP w/virtual-media (like the > Avocent DSR line). Ah. well, I can certainly understand how in some cases the ease of not unwrapping a CDROM into something pxebootable is worth money. For my environment, it's not worth a few hundred bucks a server, but yeah, that could be different in different environments. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
