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 _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
