On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 04:45:50PM -0600, Lloyd Brown wrote: > > I've often thought that someone should bring a machine with a few > distros' locally mirrored to the installfest, set up DHCP/PXE, etc., and > put the installfest network behind that. That way anyone who could > pxeboot wouldn't need any media at all. And for those old BIOS's, we > could just have a few USB keys or CDs with a basic gpxe image to boot > from. Most BIOS can boot from pxe now, though, right?
I actually did that once, a few years ago. It went pretty well, but I could do a better job of it now. The main difficulty was setting up the mirrors and bringing the machine. Now that there's a Fedora mirror across campus, this would be way easier to do. Would you be interested in walking through how to do this as part of the meeting? > Of course, I'm not sure how much load it'd put on the hard drives. I > imagine that for just a handful at a time, it wouldn't be that bad. > Just a guess, though. It's actually not too bad because most of the packages fit in memory. The netinstalled systems seemed to install faster than the -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
