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.

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C. S.

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