[geeks] installing raw OS images using PXEboot

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 01:12:37 CDT 2007


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:48:18 -0400
> Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> 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.
>> What about Norton/Symantec Ghost?  Can it be net-booted?
> 
> Can they get images from a network, like NFS or something?

I suspect you could do something with MS Lan Manager for DOS + 
Samba/Windows.

Peace...  Sridhar



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