[K12OSN] "Wireles" pxe boot ?

[norbert]

Hi Les,

Hey that's brilliant !! That way on the data & apt traffic would need to 
be relayed to & from the server. Basically it would be like loading 
Knoppix on a CD & launching a remote login....

thanks

norbert

les at futuresource.com wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 16:31, norbert wrote:
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>>Hi Les,
>>
>>hmmm what I mean is a boot CD for the thin clients via a wireless NIC
>>.....
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>Yes, the issue is that you need to initialize PCMCIA and the card
>manager before you can talk to the NIC and that happens pretty late
>in the boot sequence.  So, if you are booting from CD, why not
>load the kernel and X directly from there instead of over the
>network?  You can get a lot better hardware detection and still
>end up being a thin client if you run "X -query ..." instead of
>starting a local window manager.  I suppose it would take a little
>more effort o get sound working.
>
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>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
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