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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stefan Molnar wrote:

> Why?     PXE will allow net installs, or diskless.  And Serial Console
> is already supported.  ( On some high end machines serial console works
> in the prom as well).

well, now you see why i'm not pushing linuxbios too hard in the freebsd
world. If you think PXE and serial consoles fix your cluster problems,
then you haven't build anything really big. PXE is not a good design.
But I'm not interested in arguing ...

ron




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