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Add index entries to the diskless boot section.

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<sect3>
<title>Configuring DHCP/BOOTP</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>diskless operation</primary>
<secondary>booting</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>There are two protocols that are commonly used to boot a
workstation that retrieves its configuration over the network: BOOTP
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<sect4>
<title>Configuration Using ISC DHCP</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>DHCP</primary>
<secondary>diskless operation</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>The <application>isc-dhcp</application> server can answer
both BOOTP and DHCP requests.</para>
@ -1824,6 +1832,10 @@ Exports list on foobar:
</sect4>
<sect4>
<title>Configuration Using BOOTP</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>BOOTP</primary>
<secondary>diskless operation</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>Here follows an equivalent <command>bootpd</command>
configuration. This would be found in
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<title>Preparing a Boot Program with
<application>Etherboot</application></title>
<indexterm>
<primary>Etherboot</primary>
</indexterm>
<para><ulink url="http://etherboot.sourceforge.net">Etherboot's Web
site</ulink> contains
<ulink url="http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/userman.html">
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<sect3>
<title>Configuring the TFTP and NFS Servers</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>TFTP</primary>
<secondary>diskless operation</secondary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>NFS</primary>
<secondary>diskless operation</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>You need to enable <command>tftpd</command> on the TFTP
server:</para>
<procedure>
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<sect3>
<title>Building a Diskless Kernel</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>diskless operation</primary>
<secondary>kernel configuration</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>Create a kernel configuration file for the diskless client
with the following options (in addition to the usual
ones):</para>
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<sect3>
<title>Preparing the root Filesystem</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>root file system</primary>
<secondary>diskless operation</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>You need to create a root filesystem for the diskless
workstations, in the location listed as
<literal>root-path</literal> in
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<sect4>
<title>Running with a read-only <filename>/usr</filename></title
<indexterm>
<primary>/usr</primary>
<secondary>diskless operation</secondary>
<tertiary>read-only</tertiary>
</indexterm>
<para>If the diskless workstation is configured to run X, you
will have to adjust the xdm configuration file, which puts
the error log on <filename>/usr</filename> by default.</para>
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<sect1 id="network-isdn">
<title>ISDN</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>ISDN</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>A good resource for information on ISDN technology and hardware is
<ulink url="http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/">Dan Kegel's ISDN
Page</ulink>.</para>