Re: [Hampshire] Cheap iSCSI diskless boot?

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Author: Simon Capstick
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cheap iSCSI diskless boot?
Simon Capstick wrote:
> A bit of long shot here...
>
> Has anyone managed to reflash an Intel server NIC with Intel's iSCSI
> boot ROM [1] and then do a diskless boot from an iSCSI target (server)
> such as IET [2] (which I've dabbled with)? It seems it would be a neat
> and quiet way to manage a collection of PCs and servers.
>
> Simon
>
> [1] http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023748.htm
> [2] iscsitarget.sourceforge.net
>


Just found this which looks more interesting (and is GPL)...

http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/

Simon