http://timetobleed.com/pxe-booting-easily-getting-what-you-want-on-to-remote-servers/ technical ramblings from a wanna-be unix dinosaur Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:31:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://timetobleed.com/pxe-booting-easily-getting-what-you-want-on-to-remote-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Mike Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:21:22 +0000 http://timetobleed.com/?p=133#comment-398 You mentioned all the things that could be done with PXE/TFTP. One of those that would probably be very useful to an admin is the ability to run diagnostic tools on machines that are acting up without having to carry around disks. I've written a tutorial on using the memdisk kernel to boot any floppy image file you could want. Personally I use this to boot up some memory and hard drive testing utilities via the network. Check it out at <a href="http://electronet.dyndns.org/computers/?p=85" rel="nofollow">http://electronet.dyndns.org/computers/?p=85</a>. Hopefully it's something that ends up being useful to you or your readers! You mentioned all the things that could be done with PXE/TFTP. One of those that would probably be very useful to an admin is the ability to run diagnostic tools on machines that are acting up without having to carry around disks. I've written a tutorial on using the memdisk kernel to boot any floppy image file you could want. Personally I use this to boot up some memory and hard drive testing utilities via the network. Check it out at http://electronet.dyndns.org/computers/?p=85. Hopefully it's something that ends up being useful to you or your readers!

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