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Re: Floppy (only) booting RH Linux 486/8Mb RAM PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Forsyth)
Mon Nov 18 08:07:58 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:05:20 -0500
From: "Daniel W. Forsyth" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca>
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Phil Rhoades wrote:
>
> I would like to use cheap (floppy disk only) PCs as UNIX terminals to unix
> hosts - I have currently got them using DOS + NCSA telnet, which is OK but
> does not really make much use of the 8Mb RAM that the PCs have.
>
> Since the RH install floppy contains everything that I would need to achieve
> this result - has anyone set up a RH Linux boot floppy like this.
>
> I'm sure I could work it out from the source stuff at RH but if someone has
> already done it . . .
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
Yes, our system is marketed to our clients in this setup, and it works
excellent. Look into bootpd, the NFS filesystem in the kernel, and
XDM. These should give you the facilties you require. Good luck.
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