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Old 01-30-2006
Boot from a remote system

I have a diskless work station.
i want to boot from a remote linux machine.
what changes i will have to do in configuration.
Plz tell me
thanks
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Old 01-30-2006
You need to read the diskless root HOWTO from the linux documentation project, where this is explained.
 
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