Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: alt.os.development Subject: Re: remote OS install and boot issues for test PCs Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 02:27:20 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <52d8cee4-f483-4201-97be-7bddb8fd771f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: aioe.org alt.os.development:8296 On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:58:35 -0400, 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. ;-) -- Tolerance and socialism attracts intolerance and terrorism. See: France, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, ...