a distro designed for booting over the network

[Hugh Esco]

Check out the Linux Terminal Server Project at www.ltsp.org/

Also, as I understand it, your BIOS will probably recognize hard drives 
larger than the 1024 cylinder limit, but your /boot partition must be 
completely contained below that limit on a larger hard drive.  By 
partitioning a larger disk you will be able to use an older machine.  On my 
debian box here, a 40 gb drive is partitioned like so:
         /dev/hda2       327 MB  /
         /dev/hda1        15 MB          /boot
         /dev/hda3       2.8 GB          /usr
         /dev/hda6        33 GB          /var

/dev/hda4 is a logical, not a primary partition.  /dev/hda5 is my swap 
partition.

When I installed RH9 a couple of months ago, it wanted at least 100 MB on 
its /boot partition.  I'm not completely familiar with LBA and this 
limitation of older BIOS's, but as I understand it, this sort of 
partitioning scheme is a work-around to this issue.

-- Hugh Esco

At 11:20 PM 8/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>Well, the box on which I did my debian install had its hard drive die,
>which probably explains some of the weird problems I posted about
>during the install.
>
>Anyway, this machine is a AMD k5 133 MHz, with 40 mb of ram. Since
>the hd was a 1.2 GB, and since I very much doubt this motherboard can
>take anything higher then 2 GB, replacing the hd isn't an option.
>
>Since this box still has a working 3c905c card, I thought I could use
>it as a dumb terminal. So, does anyone know of a distro designed for
>booting over the network?
>Thanks.
>
>Greg
>
>
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