[GRLUG] Installs (Was: Netflix on Linux?)

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Kevin McCarthy <signals42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also, what with all the "installfest"-like activity we end up doing
>> from time to time, it'd be really handy to set up a PXE boot box we
>> could attach to a wired network, which would offer a variety of
>> installers and network tools.
>
> While this would probably not be appropriate for "installfest" activity
> because it pulls everything over the WAN, it's pretty close to what you are
> looking for:
>
> netboot.me
>
> It's really just iPXE chainloaded from GRUB. I haven't actually tried their
> image, but I do have a NIC with iPXE installed in its flash that I've
> pointed at their servers. It seems like it would be quite handy for random
> installs of Linux/BSD distributions.
>
> -Kevin

Hm. Combine that with a transparent caching proxy, and you've got a
pretty neat solution!

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