[OLUG] trying to set up a dumb terminal

[Drazak]

I did this about 2 years ago with an old diskless Sparc IPC.  Youll need
to set up tftpd and nfs.  The gist of it is you put the boot image for the
diskless machine in the tftp directory, then you link it to the diskless
machines MAC address in hex.  The diskless machine RARPS to get its IP,
downloads the image, boots of it, and nfs mounts a partition for itself.
It sounds hard, but it really wasnt bad.  I followed the diskless
workstation howto on linux.org and an article in the Linux Journal.  If
you are a subscriber, search online to get it.  If not, Ill dig up the old
issue and you can just have it.

Of course, I then realized that a diskless IPC was worthless for about
anything other then the experience of getting it up and running :)

_Drew

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> 
> > I've got an old p200 laying around that I would like to have crunching
> > rc5 packs or something, but I don't have any hard drives for it. So, I'm
> > trying to set it up as a remote boot workstation, that will boot off of
> > my main computer over the network. The documentation to do this,
> > however, is less than clear. Since I'm sure there's at least a couple of
> > sysadmins here, I figured someone might be able to help.
> 
> All I know is you need to setup tftp.  I think it would be easier to use a
> floppy to boot the thing then mount the root FS over NFS.
> 
> > First of all: how do you configure dhcp?
> 
> Use webmin to configure ISC's DHCP v2 server.  I have a working config
> file that you should be able to (mostly) drop in.
> 
> -- 
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> Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu
> 
> "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
> universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
> 
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