[Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP & PXE

[Paxton, Darren]

Rob

Thanks for the suggestions, I do have remote access by way of remote
desktop, so I can effectively do whatever I need, however I would have liked
to be able to boot a copy of the OS stored on a linux server via enhanced
tftp similar to LTSP. 

On further investigation though, I found Barts Preinstallation environment
software http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ , which will help to a certain degree,
however it needs console access to the machine, meaning I need to hook up
peripherals to engage it. 

The ideal solution was to have a couple of partitions, one for data and one
for OS and I could just blitz the OS one whenever I needed to remotely.

I'll look further into it, but looks like its going to be a doozy

Cheers again

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert (Rob) M. Schneider [mailto:rmschne at rmschneider.com] 
Sent: 03 March 2004 10:05
To: 'SLUG-list'
Subject: RE: [Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP & PXE


Darren,

Assuming you can get remote access to the machine (via telnet or other),
just issue the Windows shutdown command (see shutdown /? For options) to
reboot the machine (after you put the new image into position by some sort
of script).

You may also want to investigate and solve the root-cause of the corruption
...

-----Original Message-----
From: scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Paxton, Darren
Sent: 02 March 2004 17:13
To: 'scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk'
Subject: [Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP & PXE

Hi folks,

I'm looking at booting a Windows workstation remotely from a Linux server
and was wondering if anyone out there has tried it. I've looked at the
Remote-Boot mini-howto, however it would appear that my version of dhcpd
doesn't support some of the variables in the sample configuration, and
compiling the latest version from ISC didn't help either.

Reason behind this is I have a windows box that keeps corrupting every so
often requiring a reinstall (probably due the the load I put on it), and I'd
like to be able to reinstall an image automagically whenever the need
arises.

Thanks in advance

Darren

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