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N5: Provisioning Linux Clients Using PXELinux

02/15/2007, 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

By Scott Mewett , LinuxWorld.com , 02/14/2007

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Scott Mewett Engineering Systems Architect, Rackable Systems. Keeping Your Business Operational: Is Your Company Prepared for the Unexpected?: View now Scott has 13 years experience administering various operating systems of which the last 6 has been on Linux. He recently joined Rackable Systems as an Engineering Systems Architect. Before that he spend almost 9 years at Cisco systems as a sysadmin and tools developer. He was cofounder of Cisco's own internal Linux distro and among other things recently moved their provisioning system to be based on PXELINUX, while at the same time continuing to support a Windows based commercial PXE product.

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