How useful is PXE booting?

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Published on 2009-10-25T15:18:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 5:31 UTC
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Hi All,

How fast is booting over PXE?. Is it conceivable to boot a linux installation? Does it take a long time? I have never really looked into it at all, but I was considering setting up a compiler farm and thought this might be interesting to try.

Does one have a main computer that the PXE answers to to get its image? Can you have multiple PXE images to pick from?

Thanks!

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