[TLUG] (remote) install fest

[Justin Zygmont]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, William Park wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:52:45PM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:56:42 -0500, William Park wrote:
> > 
> > > I am interested in thin client aspect.  I'm Slackware guy, but there
> > > shouldn't be too much of difference with Debian, as long as XFree86
> > > and Kernel are uptodate.
> > 
> > Yeah, the Linux Terminal Server project is the popular thing for this.
> 
> Actually, LTSP, Etherboot, Netboot, Rom-a-matic, and friends are pretty
> much obsolete now.  With PXE support (ie. 3c905), you can boot and mount
> NFS root; after that, the client is looking at "normal" root tree as it
> would from local harddisk.

I take it this only applies to newer machines?  There's a ton of clunkers 
out there, perfect for a cheap network:)


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