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Been spending time looking at booting systems to the net to install linux operating systems. So far we have looked at Arch and Debian based systems. Both Fedora and Centos have pre-made iso's for network install. Centos: http://www.centos.org/download/ Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora But if you want to roll your own, here are some scripts to look at: Fedora  #!ipxe   dhcp any   # Set source URI   set mirror http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20     # Detect CPU architecture and calculate repository URI   set arch i386   set repo ${mirror}/Fedora/${arch}/os     # Start installer   kernel ${repo}/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img repo=${repo}   initrd ${repo}/images/pxeboot/initrd.img   boot or   #!ipxe   dhcp any   # Set source URI   set mirror http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18   ...

What a banner year for Linux and it's derivatives. The computer landscape has changed. And in other news... Linux Torvalds the creator of linux dropped linux support for the old i386. Not a big deal. Probably use free dos and opengem if I had to use one of those units anyway. People sometimes ask me what linux distro I use. Underneath the hood they are all basically the same. Thought I do use Debian the most as it is uniform over different hardware platforms. I.E. Arm, X86, X86_64 and etc.

To be honest, I do not spend that much time on Unix history. You could probably get a better idea of the history at:  http://www.robotwisdom.com/linux/timeline.html or www.groklaw.net Android was originally very loosely based on Linux at it's start. Now who knows. What is ironic is that Microsoft according to news reports allegedly earns almost a half billion dollars each year off of Android with their alleged software patents. Not so long ago A company called SCO claimed ownership of Unix via Novell and also claimed that Linux was directly a copy of unix. That assertion was clearly rebuked by the courts. SCO now allegedly in bankruptcy still wants to assert the same argument. They are still in Court with IBM over that assertion. www.groklaw.net has all the details. See also www.eff.org . Linux was developed by Linux Torvalds who still has a great say in how linux is developed. Since it is a free as in speech operating system, many derivatives have been developed. In fact, if you ...

Well fortunately, I had a system I was building to replace oesrvr1. Pulled the hard drive from that machine and installed it in oesrvr1. After making a few adjustments, The system was serving the main page and a few other things. Since I needed to replace a lot of software anyway. It was not a big deal all the applications were not installed. The lamp services and phpmyadmin were installed and they was the most important. Began to restore files.  Etc etc etc. Anyway, the real reason I needed to have to old server back up again was to take advantage of what is known as GPXE. Gpxe is the open source version of the pre-execution environment that allows a computer to boot into a working environment without a storage system in use or enabled. This usually entails having special network card in a computer system that contains enough information to boot into the network. PXE has been around a long time. Normally if you turn on your computer, you will hear a hard disk drive whirl up to spe...