[ Thanks to ikd for
this link. ]
“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…”
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