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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:56:39 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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Why would anyone do this? Thin-clients, kiosks, industrial uses, and so on. If you dont need to touch a local harddisk, you can save a lot in the way of moving parts.
Other places to look for similar information include the DisklessWorkstationNotes page, and the notes on [PXE] and so forth.
-This set up uses [PXE] booting network cards, via [PXEBoot
], to load a kernel and then mount / via NFS. Its very debian oriented, although the principles could be adapted to any situation.
+This set up uses [PXE] booting network cards, via [PXELinux
], to load a kernel and then mount / via NFS. Its very debian oriented, although the principles could be adapted to any situation.
Things you'll need:
* a [DHCP] server, preferably ISC DHCP version 3 or later. (dhcpd3-server in woody)
* a [TFTP] server that supports PXE. (tftpd-hpa in woody)
