There are a million distros, and many "small" distros, but these seem to be optimized for desktop use. Surely there are a few out there that can do the following:
1. pxe boot (easily) 2. autostart sshd, allowing root ssh login (there is no keyboard on the remote machine). 3. contains smartmontools, parted, fdisk, etc., but not any desktop pieces. I have been using boel and PLD for various maintenance tasks, but neither one of these meets all of the criteria. boel is great for running scripts, but here I want remote access to a command line. PLD has all the tools, but at least on the target in question, it doesn't start the network properly. (Also even if the network is manually started, which does work, there is a password on root, and I don't know what it is.) boel has an sshd binary, but so far I have not been able to make it work automatically in a script. If anybody has, please share those lines of code. Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
