Re: booting diskless(!) linux-pc from WinNT?

[Aphichet Vungyaichim <aphichet@fzi.de>]

Pfistner wrote:

Hi all,
Is there anybody how has any experience in remote-booting a several
diskless(!) linux-PC´s from a WinNT-Station? I think the main problem will
be NFS on the WinNT-Machine to supply the clients with their root-directory.

Does anybody have any ideas or even better: has anybody done successfully an
(similiar) thing?

Norbert

Why booting Linux from WinNT, why not from Linux? I just have only successfully experience with booting diskless Linux-PC from a Linux-PC.

Yes, the main Problem may be NFS on NT machine.
And how can WinNT understand somethings like "symbolic links", Unix file permission such as -rwsr-xr-x?

To run Linux-PC as  X-Terminal you must have a Linux or Unix server in your network as application server. Only that your Linux box can do just only a little bit in console (text mode).

- A modern good Linux base system without X-Server and X-Application takes place about 120 MB of disk space (Red Hat 6.0, with network and daemons such as inetd, telnetd, etc.). Of course, you can put its Root filesystem on a Linux server and boot it from network. You can sit at diskless client, login into it, login into server, or you can login from any allowed hosts into it too.

- Linux as an X-Terminal can have its Root filesystem about 25 MB. Login at server with XDM. You sit at diskless workstation but you login at server.

And when you have a Linux or Unix server in your network, why don't you make them for booting Linux-PC from such a server. It may be much more easier.
 

Regards,

Aphichet
 
 
 

 
 

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