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 Bootloaders (Network Bootable grub)
• 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 virtual terminals (gettys) 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