Thanks to both pablo and amit. I will be configuring 5 486 pcs to d
iskless linux machines either the coming sunday or the next. If any of you
are interested in participating in this, you may join me. Date will be
either 23rd or 30th. after 2pm. The idea is to basically make them become
xclients.
Nagarjuna
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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->Use one of the following -
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->1. Boot floppy with tftp & bootp (to contact the server)
->2. EPROM programming (i have some documentation for that) ... no
->floppy..just switch on pc and it finds the server (basically the contents
->on above floppy are put on EPROM with few changes)
->3. Use a 2 floppy distro (with X)...'xdenu' or if X is not required there
->are lots of single floppy distros
->4. Create a custom boot floppy ... then telnet to Linux server..
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->ciao,
->Amit
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->Pablo Ares Gastesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/18/2000 05:23:37 PM
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->> Is it possible to make a machine boot to diskless linux on a machine
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-> Yes, after all you do not use the disk. You can boot it from a
->floppy, the Ethernet card (or use use the disk and loadlin to boot it
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->Pablo.
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