Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:55:20 -0800 (PST) From: Alf Wachsmann Subject: Re: BayLISA tomorrow, Dec 19, 7:30 pm To: baylisa@baylisa.org Heather Stern wrote on Wed, 18 Dec 2002: > Short But Cool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > * Using PXE for workstation autoinstalls of Linux - Jim Dennis The PXE-Kickstart HowTo I talked about yesterday is available under http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/ -- Alf. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alf Wachsmann | e-mail: alfw@slac.stanford.edu SLAC Computing Service | Phone: +1-650-926-4802 2575 Sand Hill Road, M/S 97 | FAX: +1-650-926-3329 Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA | Office: Bldg. 50/323 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~alfw (PGP) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Danny Howard To: Alf Wachsmann Cc: baylisa@baylisa.org Subject: Re: BayLISA tomorrow, Dec 19, 7:30 pm Oh, hey, too bad I'm in the field, er, on sabbatical, in Asia, er. I've played with FreeBSD in this vein. The resource for BSD nerds, if you wanna compare notes, is http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ ... my own notes on the subject of doing installs from that point, were left with an old employer, though I should have a copy somewhere, if anyone wants to learn of the gotchyas I got to wrestle with - doing the disk partitioning on FreeBSD non-interactively was pretty weird. The "Alfred" connection struck a chord. :) Regards, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:12:10 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Subject: Re: PXE-booting x86 boxen [was: Re: BayLISA tomorrow, Dec 19, 7:30 pm] Cc: baylisa@baylisa.org Another resource for FreeBSD PXE-booting is Doug Ambrisko; his Web stuff tends to be anchored at http://www.ambrisko.com/doug. He doesn't seem to have any obviously PXE-related stuff posted there, but he (independently of Alfred's work) set up a PXE-based mechanism (that we both subsequently hacked a bit) to be able to roll out cloned workstations to developers (when he & I were both at Whistle [RIP]). I may have some notes somewhere; still recovering (as in, email backlog, among other things) from the local power outage yesterday. (I'd have called it merely an "interruption," but it lasted longer than the main UPS, which lasted an hour. :-{) Cheers, david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)