View Full Version : Nice PXE Boot Image for Linux
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
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
06-07-11, 12:36 PM
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.
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.
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