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by deSitter
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11/12/03 4:37:42 PM
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New Re: No... the PXE extension is
Right - like IBM's old token ring boot pROMs. IBM PS/2 servers could initiate an OS/2 "CID" install. It was remarkable to watch - just plug a bare machine with nothing on it into the network - it booted off its token ring card and OS/2 just came down the wire. Installing a machine was literally a matter of assembling the pieces, if not already assembled. I never saw Windows even approach the simplicity of it. The PS/2 BIOS autoconfigured all the hardware and it just worked. This was in the Windows 3.1 days!



-drl
Post #125,410
by folkert
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11/12/03 6:37:01 PM
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New ZENworks does all that and more...
Novell took that idea and expanded on it tremndously.

Incremental imaging... it just works, providing the foot work is done around windows.

It's like Windows Update on Steroids... On 16 more rounds of Steroids too boot.

AND it does Ground up builds if you want automagically.
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     New Packages... - (folkert) - (8) - Nov. 11, 2003, 03:47:32 PM EST
         eh? - (Yendor) - (7) - Nov. 11, 2003, 03:56:39 PM EST
             Preboot Execution Environment - (inthane-chan) - Nov. 11, 2003, 04:08:29 PM EST
             So's you can boot off the network. -NT - (pwhysall) - (5) - Nov. 11, 2003, 04:58:56 PM EST
                 ya mean like bootpd? been around for ages -NT - (boxley) - (4) - Nov. 12, 2003, 09:37:06 AM EST
                     Yeah. PXE's not new, by any means. -NT - (pwhysall) - (3) - Nov. 12, 2003, 01:17:50 PM EST
                         No... the PXE extension is - (folkert) - (2) - Nov. 12, 2003, 04:08:26 PM EST
                             Re: No... the PXE extension is - (deSitter) - (1) - Nov. 12, 2003, 04:37:42 PM EST
                                 ZENworks does all that and more... - (folkert) - Nov. 12, 2003, 06:37:01 PM EST

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