[Fwd: Re: BIOS]

[Carsten Aulbert]

again

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: BIOS
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:29:40 +0200
From: Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de>
Organization: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
References: <20070809073702.GA1419 at gretchen.aei.uni-hannover.de> 
<18106.54145.29471.791888 at kueppers.informatik.uni-koeln.de> 
<20070809090310.GK23310 at debian-server.aei.mpg.de> 
<9A649ADE-AFB6-4F58-AAD4-CCFC30CD490E at sanger.ac.uk>

Hi Tim,

Tim Cutts wrote:
> RLX got around this with their blade deployment system in a very hacky 
> way; the DOS image they used included the Windows for Workgroups TCP/IP 
> stack, and therefore SMB support, and they used this to update a status 
> file for the node being deployed back on the Control Tower DHCP server.  
> Nasty, but it worked.

You make me shudder despite the not too cold weather ;)

We are currently looking into the package offered here:

http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/index.html

More to come.

Carsten