Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 10:31:41 AM, Aphichet wrote: AV> Why booting Linux from WinNT, why not from Linux? I just have only successfully AV> experience with booting diskless Linux-PC from a Linux-PC. One reason can be that your clients require you to use NT for backend. AV> Yes, the main Problem may be NFS on NT machine. AV> And how can WinNT understand somethings like "symbolic links", Unix file AV> permission such as -rwsr-xr-x? Granted, it's a pain but with some work symlinks can be replaced by copies. Also, you don't have to use NFS - smbfs is known for years. AV> To run Linux-PC as X-Terminal you must have a Linux or Unix server in your AV> network as application server. Only that your Linux box can do just only a AV> little bit in console (text mode). I use NT and have X-terminal running just about anything including full blown AWT Java client (1000+ classes). Best regards, Pavel mailto:ptkatcho@portal.ca =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Pavel Tkatchouk <ptkatcho@portal.ca> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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