Build A Cross-Platform Test Network With Samba & GRUB

An anonymous reader writes "This tutorial shows how to combine Samba and GRUB to build a compact, highly adaptable, cross-platform test network, capable of booting and networking a large number of operating systems on a small number of machines. Though Samba and GRUB can manage many different operating systems, this tutorial focuses on Linux and Windows." Reg required on the story.

Comments

Re:I wish to make a complaint

[SphynxSR]

they had to so a wet tity scene.

Modifying GRUB from Windows

[Malc]

I haven't read the article as I don't want to subscribe... but is there a way to modify the GRUB menu and the default choice from within Windows before rebooting?

Re:Writing style

[lederhosen]

BNU religion, it boots the Hurd!

i.e. it is the one and only bootloader...

Programming tips

[AlphaSys]

Actually, wanker, I do have a programming tip... go do some instead of pestering folks who have work to do. I had never come across a pxe variant of GRUB and so I asked the question, as pxeLinux does most of what I need at my job, but I'm still not knocked out. I myself have gotten over the need to pretend there is nothing I don't know or can't learn from another. If you are so damned well-versed in everything, why the hell do you bother with /.? It's rarely entertaining, and it can't be very informative for someone with your gargantuan intellect and endless expertise. You must have very little to do indeed if this is your form of entertainment. As ever, I am serious.

BTW... I never said I don't program... I said I'm not a programmer, as in that is not what I get paid to do. Of course, by that criteria, you could claim you're not a wanker.

Just one last thing, wanker

[AlphaSys]

Troglodite feces by itself is probably pretty innocuous. But if you were to mix it with SARS, I'd be willing to bet the combination would kick your ass. Slide down that scale, troll. Take your bitching to news://alt.my.pussy.hurts or similar.

Re:Just one last thing, wanker

[AlphaSys]

Man, talk about your multiple personailities!

You didn't mean to post this to me.... you were really talking to your tsarkon alter-ego.

Re:Just one last thing, wanker

[AlphaSys]

Aren't you confirming what I just said?

If I am accusing "people", then they must assume they are more than one, mustn't they?

Not to mention that referring to yourself as even "person" in the singular smacks of delusions of grandeur, or at the very least hysteron-proteron. Make the evolutionary step, then claim the victory.