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Havoc ◴[] No.42745123[source]
Surprised to see pxe. Didn’t realise that was in common use in racks
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jpleger ◴[] No.42745176[source]
Are there any alternatives these days? Or just that you weren't expecting to have systems boot off the network?
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1. Havoc ◴[] No.42747269[source]
The later. I was expecting local boot because pxe introduces a rather big dependency for potentially many machines. Issues with network or issues with pxe server and nothing boots