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Are your machines PXE enabled? What type or style of cluster are you |
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using? |
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A few good google key words: PXE, diskless, thin clients, nodes |
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Here are a few starter links: |
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http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php |
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http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html |
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Almost any OS can boot diskless or via a network boot method. Gentoo |
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is a wonderful Linux "flavor" give it a try! |
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Hope this helps, |
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George |
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On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:45 PM, chrosken wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> We have a clusters of machine and would like to setup network |
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> booting. At |
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> this time, we have to go to the data center and boot the machine |
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> manually. |
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> We would like to manage it as best as we could where we can save |
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> time and |
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> money. I heard network booting is a good way to go. I'm not sure how |
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> network booting work, and also not sure if this is possible with |
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> Gentoo |
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> operating system. Sorry for the dumb questions, I am totally new to |
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> Networking. |
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> Can someone please point me to the right direction? |
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> Any help is appreciated. |
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> Thanks! |
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