"As for what I've actually been doing down here, the most significant project to date is getting diskless clients to run with our current install, SuSE 9.0. Diskless clients are important to us because it gives us a clear advantage over Windows when marketing to local businesses and schools. Instead of trying to roll it myself, I decided I might as well utilize the years of work that have been put into the LTSP project and chose the LTSP 4.0 release for this project.
"The first part of understanding diskless clients is knowing how they boot. Because they have no hard drive, they have to access booting information over the network..."