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I have question... as recently posted, I just received a little "linux" terminal by Siemens/Fujitsu (Scovery 211). The system is a 200MHz IDT Winchip with 64 MB of memory and a ATI Rage IIc (4MB). It's also got 10/100 MB ethernet with boot rom AND a 16MB flash card that plugs into the IDE bus and looks like disk. Let me simply say that $125, this is the coolest toy I've had in a while! It makes NO noise! At this point, I am booting the preloaded linux which then XDMCP's from my server in the basement. It work's great. I also want to try the custom build a current kernel and build a network bootable image. Here comes my question... When I plan my network bootable image, should I stick with a XDMCPing client, or should I go to a true diskless client which mounts everything from the network. My server is pretty beefy (Dual 266MHz PII, SCSI, etc) and there's the SWAP over NFS concerns, thus my initial opinion is that XDMCP is the way to go. Comments? +------------------------ | christoph | linuxguy at ici.net | http://www.linuxsoup.com - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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