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 ...

I've been playing with openMosix lately and have made it work with individual Debian installs. Now, I'd like to set up my main Debian box as a PXE boot server.<BR><BR>I want to be able to:<BR><BR>1.

At the Superemos community education programme in Esteli, northern Nicaragua, we use secondhand computers as thin (diskless) clients in networks controlled by a Linux server. Many organizations ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: In Part I of this article, Kevin explained how he ended up spending his summer in Nicaragua and why Linux is finding an audience there. Here, he discusses some of the technical aspects ...