Dummy Client

[dhamodharan_1]

Team,

I am using Red Hat EL4 , Is it possible to create the dummy client in this box [Client System boot from server , how it sense the availability of the server], Explain in steps.


Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

What is a dummy client?

You want to boot a system directly off this RH EL4 server? Or just install one?

RH can be made to act as a terminal server with thin clients booting of the machine with the horsepower.

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Do you want to configure a diskless environment?

See:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-diskless.html

[dhamodharan_1]

I need to boot the client without disk , it has to boot from server .I have two RHEL4 boxes.
thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

Some links.
http://www.applied-synergetics.com/ashp/html/disklessboot.html

http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-10/netbooting_01.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO/

Last link looks best.

SEP