Re: A couple of Galaxy questions

From: Frank Cusack (fcusack_at_fcusack.com)
Date: 09/22/05 

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:34:33 -0700

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:01:37 GMT Rich Teer <rich@rite-group.com> wrote:
> 2. The X4100 can be ordered with 2 SAS drives plus a DVD drive,
> or 4 SAS drives if one doesn't need a DVD drive. Reading the
> white papers and other info, I get the impression that one can
> use a remote DVD/CD drive as though it is local, via the ILOM.
> Is my understanding correct? More specifically, suppose I have
> an X4100 with 4 SAS drives and an Acer Ferrari laptop, and connect
> the latter to the former's ILOM via Ethernet. If I need to boot
> from CD/DVD, could I place the disk in the Ferrari's drive and have
> the X4100 boot from it?

Why wouldn't you just PXE boot? Rather easy to setup a boot server.

-frank

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