Nice PXE Boot Image for Linux

[dan]

Got this running while board was down. Lets you pxe boot into Linux with Boinc running. Works real good. For those of us that want just a bunch of servers without monitors or lots or hard disks this is the way to go. The biggest problem I had was getting my NFS setup, but now I can just put a bunch of motherboards on boxes, like I saw in Dr Pop's pics and boot. Just need a CPU, motherboard, memory and PSU to make a crunching machine.

http://www.linuxforge.net/docs/crunching/dc-pxe.php

[Bok]

yup, the NFS part is always the hardest when doing PXE booting.

Been years since I tried this, I'm sure there is a good thread over at Free-DC from 10 years ago or so when PCZ had 10-20 pxe nodes running on Distributed Folding :)

[Fire$torm]

I tried basically the the same thing with Dotsch_UX. (http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/Dotsch_UX.html) I say tried because I could never get persistence setup on my USB stick. I'm currently trying a diskless setup on my Vaio sans any PXE since I'm not planning on using it beyond the Vaio.

Question: With your setup, would it be hard to integrate a RAID NAS unit? Just curious.

[dan]

I tried basically the the same thing with Dotsch_UX. (http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/Dotsch_UX.html) I say tried because I could never get persistence setup on my USB stick. I'm currently trying a diskless setup on my Vaio sans any PXE since I'm not planning on using it beyond the Vaio.

Question: With your setup, would it be hard to integrate a RAID NAS unit? Just curious.

It's not my setup, but I got the image open and trying to decide how to modify it, so I'm sure it is doable.

I like this pxe image, cause it's got a small foot print, only using 126MB on the ram disk and 64MB in memory.