On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:47:55PM -0700, pjordan@whitehorse.blackwire.com wrote: > I have been given the opportunity to build a linux cluster > out of a student lab with dual processor G4 machines. > > Since it is a student lab, the machines need to boot > the default OS (macos9) if all else fails, but > ideally boot linux when reset at night. > > To this end, I want the open firmware to boot using > this command "boot enet:192.168.2.1,yaboot.hack" > at night, but using "boot hd:\\:tbxi" by day. why not put a Forth bootscript on the bootp server instead of yaboot, either write it to check the current time (in UTC which you can get from newwer OF) and make a choice, or else simply have two different versions of the script, one that boots macos, and one that boots a tftp yaboot, then use a cronjob to rotate them at the appropriate times on the bootp server. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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