Re: [Devil-linux-develop] booting from network?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>
> IRC, some time ago we talked about booting dl from network, using pxe or
> something like that. i keep thinking that this could be very useful (for
> example, when installing a storage server, or a web server you could keep
> hardware to a bare minimum, booting times would be faster and updates
> easier (just reboot the box and let's rock!)
>
> does anyone have the time and the skills to include all this packaged with
> easy instructions on the dist dir? :))

Mounting the ISO file over a network? That should be quite interesting....
This would also require some major changes to our init system, i.e. you
would need network support in the initrd.

I think it would be better to use a CF card or USB stick and implement a
remote update (parts are already existing).

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org