[TLUG] (remote) install fest

[William Park]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:01:49PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On December 17, 2003 05:03 pm, William Park wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Incorrect.  PXE is about getting a kernel loaded into memory, the same
> job and purpose as etherboot, netboot or romamatic.  PXE facilitates
> LTSP it definitely does not obsolete it.

Here we go again...  After you boot and mount NFS root, you're looking
at the root tree that used to be local harddisk (except now it's
remote).  You tell me why LTSP is necessary.

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