On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:15:33AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
Anyway I've solved the problem with PXE which seems to be the best way to do it.
IMO, it's always the best way to do it - pretty nearly any machine can boot off PXE, so you don't have to stuff around with CDs, DVDs, USB sticks, etc. it's my primary method of running installers, rescue disks, freedos based firmware updates(*), clonezilla and whatever else - i really only use USB sticks if i'm working on a network that i haven't installed a tftp server on. (*) there's quite a lot of hardware that works on Linux but doesn't have linux tools to update the firmware - many of them have MS-DOS based tools. most of them work just fine on a freedos floppy/hd image. e.g. one of my pxe-bootable freedos images is for re-flashing my LSI and IBM M1015 cards to IT (JBOD) firmware rather than the stock IR (raid) firmware. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>