At 13:58 2002/09/09 -0500, you wrote: >out CD's than to repartition or modify them, 2) I know I can eject it and do >a automatic reboot, which should result in windows 3) building a cd and >booting from it is something my feable mind can almost understand.
This falls into the "Yes, but..." category. What you're talking about is probably possible (although rebooting from something other than the cd may be a problem unless your machines are all using slot-load drives), but you appear to be making it more difficult way than you need to. AFAICT the simple solution, given that these machines are all networked, would be to boot all of them over your network using something like LTSP (see www.ltsp.org). This would save you a great deal of work (you don't have to build a root filesystem image, you don't have to do any debugging on the OS, you just have to tweak a couple of shell scripts so that the machine starts your program). The cheapest way to do it would be to hand out etherboot floppy disks (see www.rom-o-matic.net) with instructions that basically say "insert disk, reboot, remove disk, leave machine on". That way when you need to change something on your root filesystem (trust me, you will) you won't have to distribute a pile of new cds. A more elegant solution would be to install bootable network cards in all your machines (or equivalently, install boot roms in all your NICs). If you have more than 10 machines you'd be best off buying an EPROM programmer and a pile of 16K EPROMs (less than $1.00 each in bulk), but I'm not sure how easy it would be to arrange this so that it could be set to default to a network or local boot depending on the time of day or some such criteria. That may require some programming, or it may be configurable through the DHCP/BOOTP server. Have a look at the documentation related to PXELinux and/or Etherboot if you want to pursue this route. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
