On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Vernard Martin wrote:
> > Its not quite this simply but very similar. I would recommend reading the
> > Diskless HOWTO. you can find info on this at http://www.diskless.com.
>
> Ack! Makes that http://www.disklessworkstation.com or //http://www.ltsp.org/
The LDP has a HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html>
Another couple of links which will be useful:
http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot.html>
http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/>
I use etherboot personally, but that's more because it was the first one I
tried, and it worked, so I've never messed with netboot. At any rate, the
basic concept of a diskless workstation is that you use etherboot or netboot
for an image (either eprom or floppy) which will have a DHCP / BOOTP client
and a TFTP client. That image boots the workstation (either off the NIC on
startup if you've got a eprom, or else floppy; definitely go the floppy
route 'til you get things working like you want them).
The workstation then gets an IP either via bootp or DHCP, and uses TFTP to
download the kernel image. It then boots the kernel, and mounts everything
over NFS.
So, for your server, you have to set up
dhcp
tftp
nfs
and have them configured to deal with your workstation
You'll probably also want the server doing broadcasting XDM stuff so you can
log straight in from the workstation via XDM.
If you're on Debian, it has a "diskless" package which walks you through
setting up the server and getting the daemons and client's root fs images
configured that I'm told works quite well....
later,
chris
--
Chris Ricker ">kaboom@gatech.edu
">chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu
--
To unsubscribe: mail ">majordomo@ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.