On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:39:51AM -0500, gregwm wrote: > this sounds almost like what i want. please tell me if i am wrong, but > i bet i need to have someone over there fuss with the bios in order to > do the netboot. i may as well have that fuss put into getting CDs > burned instead. Most systems can be configured to try to netboot first, or netboot if they are unable to boot from local devices (HDD, CD-ROM) All the systems I've assembled in the past few years also have a 'boot from network' hotkey during POST (or a hotkey that brings up a boot selection menu) I'm not entirely sure what your purpose is, installing new systems or making it easy to re-image existing machines. Setting netboot to the default (then HDD then CD-ROM) and adding that systems MAC address to your PXE boot configuration only when it needs to be (re-)imaged is a workable solution. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list