On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:20:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Couple of points. > > - You're probably interested in the BootDisk HOWTO > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/
i'm off to look. thanky. > - There are also HOWTOs covering diskless workstations and such. I > believe it's possible to get x86 hardware to boot and find a kernel > via BIOS-activated networking. > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO/ ditto here. :) > - Disk is cheap. Bandwidth still sucks. System and distro > maintenance are both time-consuming and expensive. The ideal > "diskless" client isn't truely diskless, but transparently caches a > configuration driven by a configuration served over the network. > System data are backed off to network, user data are similarly > cached locally only until they can be archived to network. > > A dream to date, but a pleasant one. i'm thinking of making this a VPN or NAT box only, no user interaction whatever. surely we don't need lots-o-fancy packages & such just to forward net packets... > You'll almost certainly need *some* local storage, even if proxied > through a RAMdisk. Note that /var content will tend to need to be > stored. i wonder about the system on the debian potato install cd... does it have or need a /var directory? if not, what's it take to replicate that kind of setup? what packages need nixing? > > pointers hither and yon are requested. > > ====--> Hither > Yon <--==== oh good. that clears up a lot. several people were telling me that hither was east (at least when i read my email on the monitor behind me)... -- don't visit this page. it's bad for you. take my expert word for it. http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2001/03/21/spring/index1.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!