[Wylug-discuss] 2002 Talks / generic pxegrub

Mark P. Conmy mpc at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Sun Jan 18 12:36:45 GMT 2004


On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Philip Wyett wrote:
> --
> On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 10:39, Mark P. Conmy wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Dave Fisher wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone know what happened to the 2002 talks?
> > >
> > > There don't appear to be any on the WYLUG website.
> > >
> > > I was trying to find Mark Conmy's PXE talk in the hope that it might
> > > shed some light on the problem of booting a diskless system using
> > > Grub/pxegrub without having to specify a particular ethernet card/chip
> > > and driver, i.e. so that the diskless machine can boot from any
> > > PXE-capable interface.
> > >
> > > I've seen some skeletal descriptions of this possibility, but googling
> > > for anything coherent in one place is proving rather frustrating.
> > >
> > > If anyone knows of a decent source for such details, I'd appreciate a
> > > pointer.
> >
> > This could well be my fault.  I *think* I sent them to the site maintainer,
> > but it's possible I didn't.
> >
> > You can find this one as:
> >
> > 	http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/mpc/wylug/pxetalk.pdf
>
> Hi,
>
> Naah, the maintainer never had or got any talks from 2002. :) I'll add
> this one later tonight and if anyone knows of anymore, please let me
> know and I will add them.

Sorry - I misread as 2003.  You already have two from me for 2003 (the
fileystem and Unix talks) which was when I thought I'd given the PXE
talk (doesn't time fly :-( )

The PXE talk was October 2002 by the looks of things.

Mark





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