Hi All, I am going to be presenting a 45 minute session at Linux World in April on how to use PXELinux to provision linux systems, among other things. This probably isn't of value to most on the list, as it is geared towards giving new users a jumpstart on what's needed so that they can get up and going quickly along with some practical suggestions and tips. I'll be covering of course pxelinux, it's config files, menu's, ipappend, booting linux, booting dos with memdisk etc. As well as other considerations, i.e. tftp, dhcp, etc. So the reason for this mail though, is to see what people wished you had known about pxelinux to start with, what would that be? This could be either a caveat, or even better, a wicked cool feature that may not be obvious to someone just getting started. Thanks Scott
Scott Mewett wrote:> Hi All, > > I am going to be presenting a 45 minute session at Linux World in April > on how to use PXELinux to provision linux systems, among other things. > > This probably isn't of value to most on the list, as it is geared > towards giving new users a jumpstart on what's needed so that they can > get up and going quickly along with some practical suggestions and tips. > > I'll be covering of course pxelinux, it's config files, menu's, > ipappend, booting linux, booting dos with memdisk etc. > As well as other considerations, i.e. tftp, dhcp, etc. > > So the reason for this mail though, is to see what people wished you > had known about pxelinux to start with, what would that be? This could > be either a caveat, or even better, a wicked cool feature that may not > be obvious to someone just getting started. >Hi Scott, Would this be something that could be turned into an addition to the webpage? It sounds like it would be really useful. -hpa
On 2/17/06, Scott Mewett <smewett at rackable.com> wrote:> Hi All, > > I am going to be presenting a 45 minute session at Linux World in > April on how to use PXELinux to provision linux systems, among other > things. > > This probably isn't of value to most on the list, as it is geared > towards giving new users a jumpstart on what's needed so that they > can get up and going quickly along with some practical suggestions > and tips. > > I'll be covering of course pxelinux, it's config files, menu's, > ipappend, booting linux, booting dos with memdisk etc. > As well as other considerations, i.e. tftp, dhcp, etc. > > So the reason for this mail though, is to see what people wished you > had known about pxelinux to start with, what would that be? This > could be either a caveat, or even better, a wicked cool feature that > may not be obvious to someone just getting started. > > Thanks > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >Probably pointless to say this since it's probably pretty obvious, but, all I can think of for what I'd add to what you've specifically said you'd say about PXELinux would be to tell the people there about all the real world uses -- how they can use it on their own systems. Ok, you're probably already going to do that, but, it's all I can think to add to the list of what you've told us.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:05:35PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:43:37AM -0800, Scott Mewett wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2006, at 10:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >Hi Scott, > > > > > >Would this be something that could be turned into an addition to > > >the webpage? It sounds like it would be really useful. > > > > Absolutely. > > > How should updates for the website be provided?I really do like to see some sort of F.A.Q. page on http://syslinux.zytor.com/ which tells about * PXE-On-A-Disk, ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html * other COM32 examples then ethersel.c32 * How to sent updates to the website :-) Geert Stappers Pesky about what he thinks that is good thing ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEA3k0OSINbgwa/7sRAt6bAJ437hRu8l1yFXIAn1ij3qAxUbFujQCfZwFO nQpPmkIZpXNY9yOFG0iNgA8=nYQR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Geert Stappers wrote:> > I really do like to see some sort of F.A.Q. page > on http://syslinux.zytor.com/ which tells about > > * PXE-On-A-Disk, ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html > > * other COM32 examples then ethersel.c32 > > * How to sent updates to the website :-) >Sounds like what we really could use is some kind of wiki. Anyone has familiarity with setting up a wiki? -hpa