On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:34 PM Anderson, Charles R <cra(a)wpi.edu> 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?
Neat idea. Good chance the network is faster than optical media.
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Chris Murphy