to sum up a remote boot environment On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote: > http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ > :) > > > Matthew A Coulliette writes: > >> What is DRBL? - MatthewMPP >> >> Stephen wrote: >>> interesting. I have gotten the clonezilla livecd working. so was >>> looking forward to having the ability to have a server repository for >>> this and not needing anything cept a network boot. >>> >>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >>> >>>> I'd installed DRBL on my laptop's vm a while back as a cloning tool >>>> (clonezilla, uses DRBL), which I found basically never worked in many >>>> attempts to clone windows or linux.  Wouldn't surprise me if it was my >>>> fault, but I could never find the secret sauce to get it properly >>>> functional.  It always seemed to hang reading a disk somewhere in the >>>> middle, after hours of trying, leaving anything unusable. >>>> >>>> Just getting it working was a bit of a chore, as their setup scripts >>>> assume certain stupid things like the server would multihome between a >>>> private and a public (non-RFC1918, outside a firewall, ick) ip space, so >>>> I had to modify some of the regexp's in the setup script to get it >>>> working between 2 privately routable subnets.  I ran off of the >>>> directions mostly on their site to get things going short of that quirk. >>>> Caveat Emptor... >>>> >>>> Aside from that, it did work pretty well for diskless booting machines >>>> into various linux os's to install themselves.  I pxe booted a box and >>>> installed ubuntu from it just fine.  I wanted to play more with the >>>> thin-client functionality, but somewhat lost interest/purpose.  It took >>>> a lot of guesswork out of setting up dhcpd, tftp, etc for remote booting >>>> which was nice. >>>> >>>> YMMV... >>>> >>>> -mb >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:12 -0700, Stephen wrote: >>>> >>>>> Anyone here have any advice on setting up a DRBL server? >>>>> >>>>> I have the obvious Walk through (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/) >>>>> but any real world suggestions would be appreciated before i get >>>>> going. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance >>>>> >>>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss