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          Robert
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          Nemkin
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          buci@math.klte.hu
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          Robert
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          Nemkin
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          buci@math.klte.hu
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    <title created="2000-02-17">
      Diskless Nodes HOW-TO document for Linux
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    <date created="2000-02-17">
      2000-01-22
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          2000-01-22
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          6.0
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    <description created="2000-02-17">
      This document describes how to set up a diskless Linux box.
      As technology is advancing rapidly, network-cards are
      becoming cheaper and much faster - 100 MBits ethernet
      is standard now and in about 1 to 2 years 1000 MBits
      i.e. 1GigBits ethernet cards will become a industry
      standard. With high-speed network cards, remote
      access will become as fast as the local disk access
      which will make diskless nodes a viable alternative
      to workstations in local LAN. Also diskless nodes
      eliminates the cost of software upgrades and system
      administration costs like backup, recovery which will
      be centralized on the server side. Diskless nodes
      also enable "sharing/optimization" of centralised
      server CPU, memory, hard-disk, tape and cdrom
      resources. Diskless nodes provides mobility for the
      users i.e., users can log on from any one of diskless
      nodes and are not tied to one workstation. Diskless
      Linux box completely eliminates the need for local
      floppy disk, cdrom drive, tape drive and hard-disk.
      Diskless nodes JUST has a network card, 8MB RAM, a
      low-end cpu and a very simple mother-board which does
      not have any interface sockets/slots for harddisks,
      modem, cdrom, floppy etc.. With Diskless linux nodes
      you can run programs on remote Linux 64 CPU SMP box
      or even on Linux super-computer! Diskless nodes
      lowers the "Total Cost of Ownership" of the computer
      system. This document is copy­righted by Robert
      Nemkin and other authors as listed above. Copyright
      policy is GPL.  Thanks to Bela Kis
      bkis@cartan.math.klte.hu for translating this initial
      document v0.0.3 (which was a mini-howto) to English.
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      HOWTO
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        Global
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        Linux
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