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Linux Remote-Boot mini-HOWTO: Configuring Remote-Boot Workstations with Red-Hat Linux, DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95

Marc Vuilleumier Stückelberg, Sandro Viale and David Clerc

v2.5, August 1997


This document describes how to set up a very robust server-based configuration for a cluster of PCs, allowing each client to choose at boot-time which operating system to run. The key of this configuration is the TCP/IP bootprom, which let the user choose at boot time one of several boot images. The most up-to-date version of this document, with hypertext links to downloadable software and other related materials, can be found at the address http://cuiwww.unige.ch/info/pc/remote-boot/howto.html. Linuxdoc-SGML, DVI and postscript versions are available in the same directory.

1. What has changed...

2. Introduction

3. The Configuration How-To

4. TCP/IP Bootprom Related Utilities

5. Discussion


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