Remote booting is a concept of allowing you to boot a machine over a network from a centralized boot-server. The Linux OS uses TFTP to upload/download the boot image. The diskless machine needs a ...

As in any network, diskless client systems consist of a server connected to clients, in our case by Ethernet cable. Once the server is powered up, the diskless clients receive their operating system ...

Administrators like the idea of centrally administering their client workstations. Unfortunately, the physical resources of the client workstation (such as the disk, framebuffer and the like) are ...

I'm trying (trying being the operative word) to setup some diskless workstations to netboot. The two paths I've tried are PXE and BOOTP via DHCP 2.0.<P>Here is a summary of what I've done for each ...

The X terminal is not a new idea; companies such as NCD have been manufacturing them for 15 years or more. The thin client idea fell out of fashion during the late 1990s, however, as the price of PC ...

Last night I had my first great success in booting a diskless client to a machine serving ubuntu from an nfs-kernel-server. The diskless box is slated to become an LCD picture frame, and thus I would ...