Good morning all - Many years ago, I maintained a small cluster of Alpha 21064 machines, and although they didn't support native PXE, they could boot over the network. As a by-product, AlFAI was created - to FAI-install them without major extra effort. (I believe FAI-CD didn't exist back then, and it wouldn't have been as flexible as netbooted FAI anyway.)
While AlFAI was lost at some point (maybe I still have a copy of the instructions on paper?), as the Alpha machines were taken out of service, alternative platforms are still fascinating. This is where Apple Silicon enters the stage... Has someone already looked into combining FAI and Avahi - or even one of its derivatives towards Debian? I've got a M1 Mini on my desk that nobody will want to use for the next few weeks - and I'd like to start with NFSroot first. Anyone who can - ans is willing to - share some insights about PXE/netbooting such a thing? I'm absolutely no Mac guy (yet)... Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~
