On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:27, you wrote: > 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 have a copy of the 6/july/2003 knoppix, so don't sweat about getting it. Geographically where are you?
> I'll throw together a proof of concept to test the process. That would be very kind of you. -- C. S.
