Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs

From	"Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm>
Newsgroups	alt.os.development
Subject	Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs
Date	2015-07-05 02:27 -0400
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On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:58:35 -0400, s_dubrovich@yahoo.com  
<s_dubrovich@yahoo.com> wrote:

> For this test center of computers..
>
> Modify grub to halt the boot and listen on some dedicated ip port for a
> remote client to connect, authenticate, and pass the test image, to which
> grub-netboot would install and boot and provide a dedicated scratch  
> volume
> for a file system.  A telnet client should suffice to connect to the test
> computer and pass the test image to grub-netboot.  Not too different from
> telnetting to cp/m-80 simulator to run cpm.

 From a very quick webpage skim, it seems like grub-netboot will pull files
via tftp.  It just needs a dedicated IP address set up to pull from ...


Rod Pemberton
P.S. I guess Usenet is truly dead when Steve starts top-posting. ;-)

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remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-06-29 19:16 -0400
  Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 11:12 +0100
    Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-01 16:25 -0400
      Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 21:29 -0700
        Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-02 18:24 -0400
          Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-03 08:39 +0100
            Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-03 04:09 -0400
              Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-03 10:31 +0100
      Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-02 07:15 +0100
      Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "s_dubrovich@yahoo.com" <s_dubrovich@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-04 08:58 -0700
        Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-05 02:27 -0400

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