“Marcus OVerhagen is now working on another Haiku project. This time, he’s trying to getting PXE boot to work. What is PXE you ask? PXE means Preboot Execution Environment, and though an old technology, it’s still quite used, especially to boot computers from a network (in my previous job we used it to reinstall a Windows image for exameple).”
I asked for such feature at the Haiku site a long time ago. 🙂
“he’s trying to getting” ?
PXE is really cool but often problematic….or maybe it is just me!
LOL! Thanks dave… such a silly mistake.. shame on me
If I’m not mistaken, this would theoretically allow someone to build Haiku on their dedicated development machine, and PXE boot it on numerous machines using the network without ever swapping HDs or burning Install/LiveCDs right?
That would be nice – could also allow testing of Haiku on machines with unsupported SATA/SCSI controllers in the meantime
Yeah! Didn’t think about that! Good idea
“If I’m not mistaken, this would theoretically allow someone to build Haiku on their dedicated development machine, and PXE boot it on numerous machines using the network without ever swapping HDs or burning Install/LiveCDs right?”
Only if Haiku also supported mounting the “root” filesystem over NFS.
It could still be usefull for network-based installation.