Liran Zvibel wrote: > > I have one question, though, NT has an option to be installed and > configured from the network (I don't mean installing via NFS, but > actually get all the installation profile form the network, including the > installed programs and conf. files (Of course the administrator has to > give the ip and host name)). > > Is there such an option for Linux? If there is it will be much easier to > convince my boss to make the systems dual boots. > > I can put a main /usr partition on our RAID, and just copy the /etc > directory. But even in this way I'll have to change the ip and hostname > manually for every computer. > > I want the students to be able to work locally on the Linux machines, and > might add a third boot option to run XDM, connect to our chooser and work > from the servers.
I think there's a diskless mini-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu./LDP/ and a xterminal tutorial at http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.html or something like that -- Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ BRASIL _ < > Campanha da fita ASCII - contra correio HTML & vcards X ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML email & vcards / \