I want to setup a diskless system. It will boot from my linux box and I only need a few things running, mostly a web browser or two.


I do not want to forward X to it I want the system running its own kernel and apps. I want them to load into ram on boot.

Has anybody seen anything on this.

How much ram would it take?

Should I have a local hard drive for swap?

Am I going crazy?


Oh I have a CD bootable bios, is this feasable, or should I use a floppy? Or both

Hi..

Read Diskless howto. U can use bootrom to boot and bring or run the X .






Siddiqu.T

I guess I was talking out of both sides of my mouth last night.

Here is what I want to do.

Really two seperate things.

1. I want to use linux on my laptop which is company property and I can not dual boot.

To do this I would like to get away from using a floppy, because it is external, or takes up the dvd slot. So I want to boot from a cd. The file system is ntfs, so I will not use it in any way.

I would like to have logging go to a console so a disk is not used for logging.

I want to basically run a ram disk.

I have 256 MB of ram, I think it is enough for a modest window manager and mozilla.

The only other things I need are admin tools.

Is anybody doing this?


2. The other one is on a lan that has a linux server, this one can obtain the needed files from the server and function as a real diskless workstation. I will probably use a floppy for booting or a CD, because I do not have the eprom for booting it.

The purpose of this one is to let my old lady start using linux to surf the web and not be able to screw things up where it quits working.

Basically by removing the floppy or CD and booting it will go back to win98.

I will not let the linux install use the Hard disk.

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For your companies Laptop, you might want to have a look at SuSE liveEval. A Linux-system that comes on a CD. It will create a file on your HD (windows-filesystem, don't know if it supports NTFS though) to store its settings and user data. It will boot from the CD and then act as if you were running Linux. You can download it from ftp.suse.com

To get rid of it, just delete the file from your HD using Windows. (You will be prompted for the filename during installation). I installed it once on a winME system, all went very smoothly.

As for letting your girlfriend use Linux for internet and stuff, I heard it is possible to forward X to a Windows WS. As I don't even have X installed I cannot give you any further hints on this, though.

Well, good luck, Steave