[Gloucs] disk image to ftp server?

[Mark Adams]

[Hello all!  Nice to see a LUG in Gloucestershire]

The cool way to do this, is to use PXE boot which would save you booting of the floppy.  PXE is a specification for network booting from the BIOS, and you can only use it if your BIOS supports it.  I'm given to understanding it's standard on new machines (newer than 12 months old).

As part of a PXE boot, the BIOS broadcasts on the net for a boot server.  You can get a boot server to serve up PXELINUX, this can be used to boot a kernel+ramdisk which can do pretty much anything.  Coupled with Redhat's kickstart, you can automatically install a machine into Redhat from absolutely nothing.

No floppies, but you might have to press F12 or something when the thing first boots up.  Google on PXELINUX for the gen.

Mark.

----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Edwards <guy_j_edwards@hotpop.com>
Date: 14 Jan 2003 17:14:33 +0000 
To: MAILING LIST <gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [Gloucs] disk image to ftp server?

> Hi,
> 
> I know there's lots of linux floppy disk based distributions with
> network support...
> 
> I want to copy a hard disk image (by ftp?) to some kind of image file
> and which will be stored on a network server (linux - samba PDC but I
> can add FTP or NFS etc). I then want to use a floppy disk to boot up
> each client machine and download the disk image onto it from the ftp
> server.
> 
> What's the best/fastest way to do this? I've googled but not found much,
> I just wondered if anyone had done something similar... I'm just after a
> floppy disk based distribution that's good for this, and has the tools
> you need.
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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