> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:53 PM, wrote: >> Which got me thinking about stuff like taking dhcp off the cheap >> router we're currently using, which eventually lead to thinking >> about setting up a boot server with OS installers and utility discs. On 2016-09-09 13:12, James Mcphee wrote: > possibly a PXE boot setup where you don't have to have disks on your > compute nodes at all.  You'd store a boot kernel and initrd in a tftp > target and that'd get your boxen up far enough to mount and finish > booting to their remote disk. Like many things, it depends on the details. What OSes are you going to be installing? Some distros like Fedora have kernel images/initrd files/stuff already set up for PXE-booting. Gentoo doesn't, which seems a little odd, but https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_alternatives explains how to make this possible. Both "PXE-booting the installer and installing to a local disk" and "PXE-booting the installer and having / on NFS" are covered. The second thing is more difficult. The concepts in that URL may be transferrable to other distros. I am not sure whether random utility CDs would support PXE-booting or not. Try it and see? -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss