kickstart install using NFS 
    Yudong Tian 
    Yudong.Tian at verizon.net
       
    Fri Oct 11 10:39:36 PDT 2002
    
    
  
It happens that I just did PXE a couple months ago and jotted down the procedure 
I took, in fairly detail,
   http://hsb.gsfc.nasa.gov/yudong/notes/net-install.txt
It took ~5 min for a node to get done, and you can do it in parallel with many nodes.
A floppy would not have been used if we had not had to update the BIOS
for other reasons. 
> 
> One of these days I'll play around with the PXE boot options and eliminate
> the floppy.
> 
> later,
    
    
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