On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:37:37PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > Etherboot?
> Yes, I'm sure it's possible but from a cd or cd image?
> Remember that it's for one day only, so it's not worth hooting around for
> weeks. Do you know how? Or would you like to spend the time to find out?
It shouldn't be too difficult. It might be easier with LTSP than the
Gentoo or Knoppix CDs, since it is gear towards booting effectively
diskless machines (as we don't want to touch the disks inside these OTSC
machines).
Configure a DHCP server on a machine, mount the Knoppix or Gentoo Live
CD on that (or another) machine on the network and export this via NFS.
Build an Etherboot floppy that will boot from an NFS mount. Use this to
boot the OTSC machines from the NFS-exported Knoppix CD.
Of course, it's not quite as simple as outlined above--it does need to
be tested and there are likely to be a few things that will need to be
sorted out or at least known about beforehand so they're expected and
easily worked around.
Once I get a copy of the latest verison of Knoppix, and if I have time,
I'll throw together a proof of concept to test the process.
Cheers,
-mjg
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