Ángel Martín Alganza wrote:
>Of course, it is. Again... I was thinking about a LAN... actually, I
>think most of the time about two very similar scenarios: my class-
>room (I teach BioInformatics) and my brother's WebCafé... in both
>places I like to have thin diskless clients booting from floppy as
>straigth forward as possible. I mean... just drop in the floppy,
>turn on the system... wait for some seconds and start working... you
>know.
Excuse me in advance if I'm butting in, but here was my experience: I
taught a tcp/ip "essentials" class back in June, and used David's net
booting method for the classroom. The server was running boa, with
a directory for the packages the class needed, and another with ALL
the packages.
If memory serves me right, either the package list was supported
then, or snarf pulled the whole directory down. The end result was
that we were able to control the base base lrp package set for all
classroom machines by modifying the directory on the web server. We
didn't have to modify the boot disks. I think we were even able to
push a larger "root.lrp" out to the class but I'd have to double-
check that. :-)
When it came time to use hunt & ettercap & the other fun stuff, we
were able to have the class pull them down - but they didn't get
those tools until we told them to.
At least for us, the netboot worked well in a lan environment (20
machines or so, and appears to scale well. YMMV
Again, apologies if I'm intruding.
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