On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 05:40, martin f krafft wrote: > hi there, > > we would like to set up about 100 Microsoft X-Boxes in a cluster > configuration running Debian. I have heard that they work with Debian > GNU/Linux and thus we are quite happily willing to take on the > challenge of making them all behave as one big computer. > > We are currently investigating how to do the mass installation. FAI is > one way, but the more we think about it, the more we'd just like to > make them thin clients actually. > > So now I am wondering - is there any way you can make the X-Box boot > from the network, or from a custom CDR? or, as a last resort, from > a USB floppy drive? > > thanks for any tips and pointers.
I think you have to buy special (read: expensive) USB keyboards and mice for the Xbox. Do you already have the 100 Xboxen? Those $199 Wal-Mart specials look pretty interesting, but that's still $20,000 for 100 of them... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "What other evidence do you have that they are terrorists, | | other than that they trained in these camps?" | | 17-Sep-2002 Katie Couric to an FBI agent regarding the 5 | | men arrested near Buffalo NY | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
