Re: [SLUG] PXE boot image server

From: Steve (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 16:01:54 EST


On Tuesday 30 December 2003 02:49 pm, you wrote:
> > Take a look at the work from LTSP.org and/or K12LTSP.org
>
> They have documentation on PXE and stuff but I can't
> find anything to do what I'm attempting to do. I
> want to basically make an image server that gives
> out PXE to the clients and allows me to image boxes.
> These boxes will be Windows for now and hopefully
> some Linux ones to follow. An added desire would
> be a solution that monitors for the MACs when
> booting and will push down an image if instructed to
> do so. This is basically being used for remote
> restore capabilities. I know there are commercial
> products for Windows that do these things but I'm
> really hoping to go GNU/OSS with this if possible.
> I believe PartImage will do part of what I need as
> far as the imaging goes but I need a way to make a
> PXE server with a bootstrap image to be loaded on
> client system so I can push down the PartImage image
> (lots of images, huh?). Thanks again for any help.
>
> Pace

Shesh, I wish I still had the details. But I had a SUN "pizza" box some 15
years ago that we booted with BOOTP. Besides from the obvious is that all
that different?

-- 
Steve

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