Richard Daemon wrote: > Sweet! I'm going to give this a try, this is something I've been > looking for, for a while. > > pxelinux boot prompt? Should work with OpenBSD's pxeboot the same way?
No comment. I'm a novice at all that, but have been using an OpenBSD-running Soekris unit as a portable PXE jukebox. For the last month and a half, I was serving up OpenBSD 4.2 and Debian 4. The CF size I have limits me to the contents of two smaller ISO images, or less. I'd like to try more releases at the same time and have all of the release, not just the net install. I've generally done net install via the regular mirrors. When it was just one system, I could one system use all the space and also serve up parts via anon ftp from the same unit. If you serve Debian or any Debian-based distros, especially in a hostile environment (e.g. blocking most mirror sites, non-HTTP ports and dropping connections) I strongly recommend using Apt-Cacher. If you have the disk space and/or things are really very hostile, then pre-load the cache in a more amenable environment. Be warned that apt-cacher will spawn a lot of processes. Squid will work fine for both installations, but in my (mis-)configuration provides little or no gain for speed. YMMV. For the linux installs you can make limited modifications (e.g. partitioning) with Kickstart or if you're tough, preseed. For OpenBSD customizations, I make one or two extra sets and serve those. Regards, -Lars
