Re: [SLUG] Linux in the CyberCafe...

[Charlie Brady <charlieb@nospam.aurema.com>]

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> Would there be a way of doing this simply, like throwing in a
> bootdisk and scripting up an automatic disk image copy? I've had a
> quick peek around the mini-distros and none of them mention this
> kind of functionality, so I thought I'd ask the oracle: SLUG.

You wouldn't even need a bootdisk. Put a network card with bootrom
(etherboot, for instance, http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/) and load the
floppy image by tftp from the server. At boot time on the client machines,
they get a choice to boot normally, or start the rebuild process. Does
that sound what you are looking for?

You'd still have some scripting to do to build your custom boot floppy
image, using YARD, or Toms RtBt disk, or the Linux Router Project, or
whatever...

Charlie Brady
Aurema Pty Ltd
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  "I think it would be a good idea." Ghandi, on Western Civilisation.

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