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Stateless Systems (diskless, boot from net) on RHEL5/Centos5

Byetzion 21/07/2011

I have encountered several methods of doing stateless RedHat Linux systems. Some of them are over-sophisticated, and it doesn’t work. Some of them are too old, and you either have to fix half the scripts, or give up (which I did, BTW), and after long period of attempts, I have found my simple-yet-working-well-enough solution. It…

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DSL (Damn Small Linux) Diskless boot

Byetzion 31/08/2007

I have come across a requirement to boot a thin client on a very cheap hardware into Linux. Due to the tight hardware requirements, and the tight budget, I have decided to focus on diskless systems, which can be easily modified and purchased to our needs. Not only that, but due to the hardware configuration…