[Techtalk] netbooting Linux raid

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 5:54:18 am Ricardo Dalceno wrote:
> Hi Carla,
> 
> 
> I believe that booting from a USB device like a memory key, flash cards or
> something like these would be better then booting from network. Also, you
> will *not* need a boot server and you may use all your disks to storage.
> 

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 7:25:26 am Jean-Daniel Pauget wrote:

> 
>     I do use such design and it can be very convenient. now, I find the
>     design of usbdisk, or even live-CD distros, somehow more efficient than
>     nfs today, though, with gigabyte network, nfs is faster and easy to
>     maintain

Booting from removable media does sound better.  I've had some interesting 
adventures booting from USB sticks; the two remaining vendors of PC BIOSes 
sure are behind the times. But when it works it's great, and a lot easier 
than making a customized bootable CD with all your configs.

Carla

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