[Cialug] got USB Floppy Drive?

[Paul Gray]

Aaron Porter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> It also has PXE boot option, so if anybody has a PXE network boot
>> environment already set up, that might be nice too.
>>     
>
> Setting up a PXE environment can be really easy and might be a really
> great time investment (most new hardware can PXE, VMware can pxe,
> etc). As an example, a Debian server/router on a "spare" subnet (host
> ip of 192.168.0.1) to handle Debian/i386 installs:
>
> apt-get install dhcp3-server tftpd-hpa
> cd /var/lib/tftpboot && rsync -av --progress
> ftp.nl.debian.org::debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
> .
>   
Nice and succinct!

But why reach all the way over to the netherlands? 

http.us.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org are both official rsync 
servers, as are servers from MSU:
ftp.egr.msu.edu and ike.egr.msu.edu which would make a huge difference 
if you're pulling over Internet2.


-PG