On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 05:13:42PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 9/20/18 5:05 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >
> > On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +0000, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > > > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and
are unable to
> > > > boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most
IDE-based
> > > > CD/DVD drives. I'd love to replace them with newer systems but am
unable
> > > > to unless they actually die an ugly and permanent death. I have to
> > > > justify the cost and replacing them "just because they're
old" doesn't
> > > > fly with our cost accountants. I'm stuck with them.
> > > Do they not support PXE booting? If not, can you boot a CD that contains
a PXE boot loader?
> > >
> > PXE boot???? Set up a PXE server? And that has to be on the local subnet
> > or you have to set up forwarding on your router? YIKES!
> No it does not have to be on the same subnet, nor does it need any special
forwarding on the router. All you need is a couple DHCP options set on your DHCP server
and a TFTP server anywhere on your network to hold the pxelinux.0 and vmlinuz/initrd
images.
Oh yes. DHCP option. Shows how long ago I did it and forgot this. My bad.
>
> > But then I have avoided PXE boot for a decade or more for the above reasons.
> You've been missing out. I love being able to boot today's rawhide without
waiting for any media to burn.
When I get an affordable armv8 board, I will revisit this.
There is also iPXE which can boot over the Internet from a CD-ROM:
http://ipxe.org/start
And this, but I'm not sure it is being updated anymore:
https://boot.fedoraproject.org/index