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Old 06-25-2003, 02:20 AM   #1
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remote boot (n00b ques)


righto. i have a pII 233mhz, and also have a Athlon XP 2400. Is it possible to boot the athlon, then boot the pII via the network in such a way that to the end user, you may as well be on the athlon. so all processing would be off-loaded to the athlon, ecept real basic stuff, say (yes this could be abit laggy) and all hdd storage would be remote, bar a /tmp which could stay on a local hdd. would this be a case of running a xclient on the pII or actually mounting a remote partition and booting from that, or mounting /dev as a nfs partition, or what? is this even possible (im sure it is somehow but it is a matter of how tricky)
thanks for your help,
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Old 06-25-2003, 08:22 AM   #2
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It is very possible, and you have a few different options. If you want just a CLUE on your 233 box, then you can do a network boot (either as a diskless workstation or with partial storage) or you could load slackware on it (minimal install) and from there SSH to your athlon system. If you want X on your 233, then I would suggest LTSP (linux terminal server project) as the best solution. I think you can actually ssh and use your 233 as an xclient (I think there is a thread regarding this where davidphillips had given examples) connecting back to your athlon box, but I think LTSP would be much easier to set up and configure.

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Old 06-25-2003, 10:41 AM   #3
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This is the thread I was referring to:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=66836

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