How to set up a Diskless Linux Client

lorenz von krosigk, [email protected]

1. INTRODUCTION, CREDITS, COPYRIGHT AND SUMMARY

• 1.1 Introduction and Credits
• 1.2 License
• 1.3 Summary

2. SERVER CONFIGURATION

• 2.1 The first contact - Identification with DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
• 2.2 Transporting the Kernel with TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
• 2.3 Providing the clients with the basic network information using DHCP
• 2.4 Giving the clients access to the server's disk space with NFS (Network File System)

3. The Client

• 3.1 Ways to start up the client
• 3.2 The Kernel of the Client

4. TODO