RE: booting up/installing linux...

["bruce" <bedouglas earthlink net>]

steve.. thanks for the reply...

and yeah.. i got the humour... and i had looked through some of the PXE
links/info. wasn't really sure if this is really what i need.

my concern is that what ever solution i use be completely secure... and to
be honest, i'm not sure how PXE implements a secure process. a link that i
saw, seemed to indicate that a board that supports PXE will accept (at
boot/install time) a given sequence of certain chars, that are directed
towards the server. these chars could then apparently be used to start the
boot process/load the OS into the box... i'll need to do further research,
but this doesn't appear to be secure..

i was assuming that there needs to be a way of configuring the box, to only
allow the OS to be installed from a certain IP/range of IP addresses.

thanks

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf Of Steve Phillips
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:01 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: booting up/installing linux...


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, bruce wrote:

> ok ed...
>
> i'm curious... can you walk me through the basic steps to take a vanilla
> system, with no floppy/cd drive and get it to load up via
ethernet/internet,
> from a remote server??
>
> i have a system..
> i turn it on...
> and then what do i do..??
>

Fire up a normally network connected PC
Open a web browser and goto google.
type into the search box "linux PXE boot howto"
select the first link
start reading.

Quite easy when you get used to it..

:-)

(NB: this is rather tounge in cheek, not ment as an insult, PXE and remote
booting is quite a complex subject and there are many very useful howto's
on the net that cover off this subject in great detail)


--
Steve.

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