Re: [SAGE] Looking for call management/helpdesk software

[Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> I'm not familiar with this, but I think it exists, and it's fairly highly
> developed.   Jim Dennis gave a quick talk about this at the last BayLISA
> meeting (but I wasn't paying attention -- sorry, Jim.)  You might want to
> start your research with "PXE".  This seems to be the PC-type thing that
> can boot over the network while still under control of the ROM.

My recollection from the last time I touched PXE was that you could use
it (all presuming that you have the right revision on the card et al) to
boot off of a specified image - but that you still needed to hand off
control to something like kickstart or jumpstart.

Dunno about you - I'm not too eager to write either myself ;>

cheers!
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