[K12OSN] OT - from ISO to hard disk

[Doug Gough]

I figured it out. If others are wanting to find a way to boot their thin
clients from a hard drive, I could post my simplistic howto on the wiki.
Here's a rough outline of the steps. First I used fdisk and syslinux to
prep the hard drive, and then I used PXES, extracted the correct files
from the ISO, and copied them to the hard drive.  Then I modified the
syslinux config files, and shazam...a thinclient that boots from the
hard drive. This is the perfect solution for us, as we are converting a
bunch of AMD K6-2 350MHz systems with 4 gig hard drives into
thinclients. It only requires 25 MB on the hard drive, so it should work
on any old system.

Doug Gough

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: August 6, 2004 6:37 AM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] OT - from ISO to hard disk

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 08:27, Petre Scheie wrote:
> This O'Reilly article is about how to build your own custom Knoppix
CD.  
> One of the steps it covers is copying the Knoppix CD to the hard disk 
> (on its own partition) and then adjusting LILO or grub to allow you to

> boot from that partition.  It's not too difficult, good article.
> 
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/11/20/knoppix.html

Someone could bring this back on-topic by coming up with a modification
to the iso that would make it start X -query ltsp automatically
so it would work to boot laptops or other hardware that won't
network boot as a thin client.

Or, for faster desktops, make it authenticate to your central system,
NFS mount your home directory and run as a fat client with a
local desktop and perhaps some icons to run certain apps on an
application server elsewhere.   Some DNS naming conventions should
be all it takes to make this fairly generic.

---
   Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com



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