kickstart install using NFS

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Yudong Tian wrote:

> It happens that I just did PXE a couple months ago and jotted down the procedure 
> I took, in fairly detail,
>    http://hsb.gsfc.nasa.gov/yudong/notes/net-install.txt
> 
> It took ~5 min for a node to get done, and you can do it in parallel with many nodes.
> A floppy would not have been used if we had not had to update the BIOS
> for other reasons. 

Yeah, but that depends very much on NIC/motherboard.  Some NICs come
with PXE literally turned off.  Others have PXE but it won't work until
reflashed.  THese can add some arrrggh... to that first install.

   rgb

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