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>>>> Marcus Green moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> 
> >
> >What I'd like to do is make a self-contained boot floppy that has a minimal
> >Linux system (X, networking, bootp, etc), and which I could use to turn a PC
> >into an X terminal. That way, users like myself could access X apps on the
> 
> I don't think you will fit X onto a floppy, the docs imply some tens of MB 
> so you will need some hard disk space. It may be possible to use some of the 

NFS. 

You can make a linux floppy with enough stuff to boot up and mount 
via NFS a /usr partition that is shared by all the Linux boxen.

You can even get boot PROMs for network cards that will do a diskless
Linux boot.

See 	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/boot.net/
	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/boot/Dless-Linux/
	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/boot/netboot-nfs.tar.gz

Chris.

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