Network booting 100 computers
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 13:57:48 -0700
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>-----Original Message-----
>The idea is to have around 100 mini computers all running
XP embedded and
>all booting from the network. I am currently running
experiments booting up
>from a wired network but the idea is to go wireless.
>
>
>
>So what's the problem you may wonder? Well, it takes
quite some time to load
>the image from the server to just one computer and I
think that loading the
>image to 100 computers is going to be slow as hell,
specially because the
>idea is to turn off all the computers after work and
start them up the next
>morning every day, this will probably overload the
network traffic slowing
>everything to a crawl.
>
>
>
>So my question is, since the Ethernet signal is
broadcasted to all the
>clients weather they use the packets of information or
not (I think). Is
>there a way to have all computers listen to the same
signal and all loads
>the OS in one shot instead of each individual system
having a private
>session with the Remote Boot Server? In other words, just
like a speaker
>talking to a crowd, the speaker only speaks once and
everyone listens
>instead of the speaker talking and saying the same thing
individually to all
>the people present.
>
>
>.
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