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!
But then I have avoided PXE boot for a decade or more for the above reasons.