Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-12 Thread Beat Rubischon
Hello! Am 12.8.2007 8:07 Uhr schrieb "Carsten Aulbert" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyway, that's the reason why we want to include a dhcp client and some > means, possibly a ssh or rsh client along with the needed packetdriver > to the image and notify the server that way, that it successfully

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-12 Thread Bruno Coutinho
2007/8/12, Robert G. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > > Thanks for the link. In principle we have everything working already > > that way, but want to "excel" a bit more: > > No, no, no. You want to "ooffice" a little more...;-) > > > > > (1) Right now

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-12 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Thanks for the link. In principle we have everything working already that way, but want to "excel" a bit more: No, no, no. You want to "ooffice" a little more...;-) (1) Right now we use memdisk from the syslinux/isolinux family to boot the dos im

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-12 Thread jason bishop
On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote: Sure. You can PXE-boot DOS (which doesn't need to fit on a floppy sized image, actually). Last time I looked, there were some bootable DOS images freely available on the net -- google turns up e.g. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-12 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Robert, hi all Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Henning Fehrmann wrote: >> Has somebody experiences with this? > > Sure. You can PXE-boot DOS (which doesn't need to fit on a floppy sized > image, actually). Last time I looked, there were some bootable DOS > images freely availab

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-12 Thread Geoff Galitz
Is the "send message to install server" actually needed. I don't know your setup. I have made netbootable DOS images to do firmware updates, but without any networking in the DOS image. I wrote the image to load any needed hardware drivers, have the firmware updater directly in the image,