Thank you, Nate and Mark.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 7:49 PM Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

What operating system are you intending to use for the diskless image?
>

I was thinking Debian, because it seems neither CentOS nor Ubuntu have i386
ISOs anymore.

Are the nodes capable of network boot via PXE?
>

Yes, they are, though no IPMI, but I already have a list of all the MACs.

Is your idea to boot into a simple diskless image so you can mount the
> local disks to copy the data off?
>

Exactly.

So would you suggest I proceed to try Debian?

I appreciate it.

Youssef Eldakar
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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