On Friday 27 February 2009 01:00:22 David Mathog wrote: > 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. >
These are exactly the things that I want for my recovery images so I decided to go with RIP(Recovery Is Possible): http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ Have a look at it. Regards Marian Marinov > 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 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf