[Novalug] Is Cox blocking bittorrent?

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki eric@zhevny.com
Wed Feb 4 08:56:40 EST 2009


On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:12:56AM -0500, ethan@757.org wrote:
> > Hmm...harking back to the tradition of bootstrap loaders, it seems to
> > me we could do even better: "download a single file that installs a
> > minimal system from the net, then install rest from net."
> 
> An image that fits in the netboot ROM of a NIC :-)
> "PXE boot" across the intarwebs :-)
> 
> No need for anything!

This is how I've installed all my systems for years now (not from the
public net, but via tftp on local lan). It's a fine option for anyone
with more than a single machine. For a sysadmin in an organization with
a farm of machines it's even better if you have your own mirror of the
distro on site.

-Eric Rz.


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