Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:06:47 +0100 From: Andy Sporner <sporner@nentec.de> To: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>, freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <3DF8B417.9040509@nentec.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212120858520.17485-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov>
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Ronald G. Minnich wrote: >On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Andy Sporner wrote: > > > >>I think this is called PXE. Pre-XEcution boot environment from Intel. >>When you select Network Boot, it hits a DHCP server for an IP address >>and then a PXE server for a floppy image. Then it kicks off the image >>just like a FD. >> >> > >The systems I've used have a 32KB limit. So you use PXE to boot the thing >that boots the thing. It's stupid. > >Also can't boot over things it doesn't know, e.g. myrinet. We boot over >myrinet. > > I am not sure about the rest of the folks here, but a little civility is *ALWAYS* a good thing. Most "real" servers this works perfectly. I know because I was involved in building them! My suggestion to you is that if you can't say something constructive is that you should say nothing. That's the problem with academic people they just don't know when to just keep quiet. Out of the last 10 posts of yours most of them were negative -- LIGHTEN UP! Thing *were* a lot more civil here! -Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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