William Hooper wrote: >>> Still works - can just copy vmlinuz and initrd.img from the >>> images/pxeboot/ or isolinux/ directories and add a GRUB (or whatever >>> bootloader) stanza to boot them. >> >> So you believe this newbie who is confused by NFS >> is going to follow that advice? > > I didn't make the above statement, but I expect a newbie will probably > have or will obtain a working optical drive. I suspect that the lack of a CD/DVD drive on the HP microserver is probably part, or perhaps the start, of a trend. Logically, there seems very little reason today to have such a drive, so I assume they will die out like floppy disks and PS/2 mice. > On the other hand, knowing how to create a linux boot media is > probably a good lesson to learn. Newbies don't become experts by > magic, they do it by learning new skills. I would have thought learning how to use NFS was much more useful than playing with grub and initrd. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland