[geeks] installing raw OS images using PXEboot

[Lionel Peterson]

Not to be annoying, but what OS? Windows has tools to do this (for windows images, of course), and I think Solaris can be convinced to do this as well... I think the solution you need will be tied to the OS you want to run.

Lionel

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/07/26 Thu PM 05:03:57 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [geeks] installing raw OS images using PXEboot

>I need to install raw OS images to the first drive in some X86 hardware.
>
>All of the machines (a dev box and a 2U server) can pxeboot.
>
>What I need is a pxeboot program that can boot the machine and just raw
>write an image file of my choice to a drive of my choice.
>
>Does anyone know how to do that?
>
>I've tried writing my own pxeboot scripts, but I can't get anything to
>work.
>
>Any ideas appreciated.
>
>I'm going to try a few things again, but I'm pressed for time and was
>hoping to find a "plug in the values for your image here and boot it."
>kind of option.
>
>
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