DNS and DHCP diskless Server

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Thu Feb 12 20:55:58 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:31, João Oliveira wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> 2nd post in a few seconds, LOL
> 
> I´m trying to put up a small network at home collecting the old PCs that I 
> have.
> 
> 1st (Tania) is a AMD XP 2000+ with 256DDR/ hda 6.4GB-hdb4.3GB running dual 
> boot WinXP Pro and a Desktop install of Fedora Core 1. This is my main 
> workstation.
> 2nd (Catia) is a Pentium II 350 Mhz with 192SDRAM/ hda 40GB running a 
> stripped version of FC_1, I use it as a Server for Tania, mainly multimedia 
> files in Samba. When I say stripped, I mean without any package, only the 
> kernel and the basics.
> They´re connected trough crosslink ethernet. With these two it works great, 
> nothing like windoze crap use to, :).
> 
> Now comes the itchy part; I have a Pentium II 333 Celeron(David) and I 
> wanted to put it to work as a small DNS and DHCP Server for Tania and Catia. 
> This way, I would have my hole network connected to the Internet without 
> much hassle.  David has no hard disk.
> Can I make Catia a BOOTP server with a small partition to boot David so I 
> wouldn´t need any hard drive to it??? Does any one knows a quick but 
> understandable way to do it?
> Pls, forgive me for the somehow crazy post but I don´t know how to best put 
> it.
> 
> Tkx in advance
> Joao Oliveira alas So|!d A!r
> 
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Haven't tried exactly what you are after, but have a look at
http://www.ltsp.org 

Sturla





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