School using Linux

[Garrett Goebel]

Karl Schmidt wrote:
> One of my customers was asking about burning an eprom for a net card
> - I asked him what he was up to and it turns out he is setting
> computers up to boot off the net for an Oregon school system.

Projects facilitating booting from a network device:
http://etherboot.sourceforge.net
http:/netboot.sourceforge.net/english/index.shtml

An article describing how to add either netboot or etherboot to boards with
an AWARD bios:
http://goe.net/anleitungen/award_board.html


> He says when everyone starts up at the same time the server boggs
> down a bunch but once everyone is up he says it works fine. He is
> getting great feedback from the administration.

The LinuxBIOS project has had similar problems rebooting clusters. It might
be interesting to check them out too:

http://www.linuxbios.org

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Garrett Goebel
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