Lessdisks Class

These are my notes for a class in diskless architecture and lessdisks. 192.168.7.47 16:37, 29 Jul 2005 (PDT)

How Do Diskless Terminals Work?

 * Booting over Ethernet (etherboot, on nic roms, on card roms, PXE)
 * DHCP can offer a kernel location
 * Network Bootable grub
 * ltsp configured to ask for kernel over tftp
 * scripts to ask for root over NFS, setup root environment rw/ro/network
 * XDMCP / X server on client, logging in on server

What are the differences between LTSP and Lessdisks?

 * debian chroot environment
 * lessdisks has terminals by default
 * LTSP has X over XDM/GDM/KDM by default
 * tftp+nfs vs nfs
 * sdm

sdm vs gdm/kdm/xdm

 * security?
 * setup to talk to multiple machines
 * anonymous login and how it works