Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 16:27:55 -0200, Jan Pfeifer writes: >ps.: I don't have a hub, is it possible to connect the cards directly >with a common cable ? (one of the cards don't take coaxial cables) You need a crossover-cable, if you don“t know how to crimp one yourself, ask your local dealer ;-) &r

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Jan Pfeifer
yes, no harddisk. But I found the following: ".../linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt" and the program "bootparamd" and I think I found my way. I'm still in doubt about which files should be shared ("/home", "/usr" a part of "/etc") and which not ("/tmp", "/var", another part of "/etc"). And how t

Re: help setting up a slave machine ...

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
ops, forgott one thing: you do not have a harddisk in your slave. For that, have a ook at the linux diskless terminal server project at www.ltsp.org. Maybe there is more information you could use. Sorry for my stupidity, Greetz, Sebastiaan

Re: help setting up a slave machine .

2000-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan
Simple. Just do a standard install, configure your network properly ad then you should be able to telnet, ftp etc. between the computers. So you can do almost everything that you can do with telnet. For a ore advanced configuration, you could configure your server with nfs, o your slave has acces