[Sderby] Meetings and hard drives

[Clive Jones]

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On Saturday 31 Aug 2002 12:59 am, David Bottrill wrote:

> You can either burn a boot EPROM (instructions supplied) for most
> suitable network cards, or make a bootable floppy, the main X-windows
> client is downloaded by TFTP from the main server so the boot
> requirement is only a few hundred KB in size.

You can also download an image which is compatible with lilo from 
http://rom-o-matic.net/, which would enable you to boot from the hard disk, 
or build your own following the instructions at http://www.etherboot.org/.  
Installing the images could be done over the network using tomsrtbt which has 
the tools you need to partition/format hard disks and run lilo, and can also 
be customised to cut down on the manual steps needed.

To use a CDR to boot, download a suitable floppy image, and read up on mkisofs 
with the -b switch.  You may have to increase the size of the image as they 
are expected to be the size of a floppy.

I don't know of any mini-distros which are hard disk based and just for a 
xterminal, but you could use a basic Debian install.  It will make it easier 
to upgrade and maintain the system in future if you keep the clients as dumb 
as possible though IMHO.

HTH

C.



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