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..." catego
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> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:20 PM
> To: redhat
> Subject: Re: diskless boxes
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> Todd,
>
> I can't answer your question about the names, but wanted to bring up
> another possible issue that you may or may not be aware of.
>
> Even though you
ay of rebooting them. Perhaps including a bootloader on the
CD with the windows (HDD) option as default may be an option.
Regards
Lee
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From: "Henderson, TL Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:
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> If the box boots up with the hostname "localhost" or
> "localhost.localdomain", it will look up a new hostname based
> on its IP
> address when it gets that from DHCP.
I assume there is a database somewhere for it to look up the new host name?
Do I supply this on the CD or is this from the
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 11:58, Henderson, TL Todd wrote:
> However, the one question I have is, is there a simple way to give each box
> a different name. I'll use dhcp for ip addresses, but how will it get a
> name? Do I need to make x number of different CD's, each so it boots as a
> different h
Todd,
I can't answer your question about the names, but wanted to bring up
another possible issue that you may or may not be aware of.
Even though you can eject the drive you may not get Windows to boot up.
Many PC's close the CD when they start to boot up if it is open. At
least I find that Co
I'm working on a project where I plan on deploying linux on CD-ROM's to
everyone in our company so they can reboot their boxes to Linux at night,
it's windows during the day. Then during the night, I will be running a CFD
code that use MPICH, and then eject the cdrom and reboot their machines in
