Remote booting is a concept of allowing you to boot a machine over a network from a centralized boot-server. The Linux OS uses TFTP to upload/download the boot image. The diskless machine needs a ...

Diskless Client Network Basics As in any network, diskless client systems consist of a server connected to clients, in our case by Ethernet cable. Once the server is powered up, the diskless clients ...

I've been playing with openMosix lately and have made it work with individual Debian installs. Now, I'd like to set up my main Debian box as a PXE boot server.<BR><BR>I want to be able to:<BR><BR>1.

Administrators like the idea of centrally administering their client workstations. Unfortunately, the physical resources of the client workstation (such as the disk, framebuffer and the like) are ...

I'm trying (trying being the operative word) to setup some diskless workstations to netboot. The two paths I've tried are PXE and BOOTP via DHCP 2.0.<P>Here is a summary of what I've done for each ...

The X terminal is not a new idea; companies such as NCD have been manufacturing them for 15 years or more. The thin client idea fell out of fashion during the late 1990s, however, as the price of PC ...

Wyse Technology Inc. today released a laptop thin client that has no disk drive or fan, a relatively long battery life and a full-size keyboard. The device also supports multimedia and runs silently.