[nzlug] 128K bootable distro for photoframe PC

Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz
Fri Apr 27 11:38:13 NZST 2007


On Fri, April 27, 2007 11:33 am, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> On Fri, April 27, 2007 7:46 am, Daniel Lawson wrote:

>> On the topic of thinclients, you could always PXE boot the device from
>> another linux machine. You could mount a ramdisk based system such as
>> thinstation, or you could boot into an NFSroot system and have a fully
>> fledged linux distro, and not have to worry about trimming things to fit
>> in a particular space, or using a system you aren't familiar with.
>
> I am just a little concerned about whether you could PXE boot from the
> wireless card  - which is how Jim said he wanted to connect to the
> network.

This page is illuminating, but of course by no means complete:

http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WirelessLTSPClientsUsingAnEthernetBridge

-- 
Nick Rout




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