[ale] Linux + Diskless boot + Wireless?

[Jonathan Glass]

This is complete and total speculation, and may be totally wrong...but
here goes anyway.

Setup the initrd and kernel on the tftp server, then copy them to the
harddrive (or create a /boot parition on the internal hdd), and have the
internal kernel kick everything else off the network.  You need enough
kernel on the laptop to get PCMCIA, wireless & XWindows up, then let the
remote server handle the rest.

BTW, I did something like this by deploying a very stripped RH
distribution on laptops, and having the laptops auto-login, run X, then
run (for this project) rdesktop to connect to a Win2K terminal server. 
The really tricky part was providing local cdrom and floppy access!

Good luck

Jonathan Glass
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:26, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> He doesn't have time to hack up that much.  He has an old laptop and was
> wondering if he could set it up wireless and diskless to mess around
> with at this point.
> 
> Thus spake Doug McNash (dmcnash at charter.net):
> 
> > >>>Etherboot might be your only option.
> > 
> > In my recent copy of etherboot source I don't see drivers 
> > for any wireless cards or pcmcia.  It shouldn't be too 
> > hard to develop.  How motivated is your friend?
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