On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:07:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > But I have no real experience in PXE booting, and only vaguely understand > the depths of Debian booting, and know very little about setting up a KACE > (now Quest) K2000 Systems Deployment Appliance for network-booting a > computer, and much less for booting a Linux image, and much less for > pointing those Linux boxes to remote read-only NFS mounted systems (and I > know little NFS at all). > > So, does anyone have enough experience with this combination of stuff, and > willingness, to guide me in this process? Or even subsets of the process > that might get me closer to the whole? I can't help but think there might > be others in a similar situation that would benefit from finding this > process detailed on-line.
The keyword you are missing is LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project, which is a full setup of DNS, DHCP, PXE, images, and administration. https://wiki.debian.org/LTSP and for a bigger project built on it, see Debian Edu / SkoleLinux: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ -dsr-
