On 04 Sep 20:56, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Question: is it possible to boot an existing system remotely, and if so how do you do it? The case I'm looking at is someone who wishes to just take the disk out of their desktop machine, and install it in a server someplace else in the building (for security reasons, it will be in a different secure environment), but boot from it over the network.
Is the disk *extra* to that server, or would the server be booting from that image too?
If the disk is extra, export it via iscsi and get the diskless workstation have a PXE linux boot image that mounts the iscsi disks.
So they would have a diskless workstation booting from their existing hard drive, but remotely.
Is this possible? Or is there some way of doing something which comes to the same thing? I wondered also if the right way to go about this is xdcmp and remote login from a very basic desktop machine?
That's what we used to do, in the good ol' days.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Peter
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