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So you want to build your own data center

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Havoc ◴[18 Jan 25 01:58 UTC] No.42745123[source]▶
Surprised to see pxe. Didn’t realise that was in common use in racks
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1. louwrentius ◴[18 Jan 25 17:53 UTC] No.42750010[source]▶
Booting through the IPMI with virtual media isos over http is dog slow in my experience.

Using PXE to bootstrap an installer kernel (only few MB) over TFTP that fetches the rest of the OS over HTTP is quick and you can pressed/kickstart a machine in minutes.