Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 00:33:00 +0200 From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <3FFDDA9C.3090507@aueb.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040108214954.GA16048@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040107235737.I32227@pooker.samsco.home> <20040108075059.GK53429@silverwraith.com> <20040108075811.GJ48603@over-yonder.net> <20040108095207.GA52153@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <20040108171108.GA6216@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3FFDC218.60607@aueb.gr> <20040108214954.GA16048@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > No, I mean a server. The hard part about using PXE to install a box is > setting up the other box to boot the box your are installing on. It's > not all the difficult, but it require a bit of knowledge, some grunt > work, and a reasionable UNIX-like machine to start from. What I propose > is adding enough stuff to disk 1 that you can do pxe installs like this: Nice idea! My mind was fixated on older machines that do not support PXE; as I always have a couple of FreeBSD servers around at work/home I failed to realise that setting up a PXE server could ever be a problem. Diomidis
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