regular ubuntu + thin client on the same PC

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Philippe Rousselot wrote:

> I just checked, it is very interesting and I will use it somewhere else, 
> but it does not work here as i cannot boot from the net card in my case.

Sorry.  That was careless of me.

> I guess it is simply making a fat32 partition install on it the disk 
> image corresponding to the net card, installing linux then modifying the 
> menu.list in order to incorporate the fat 32 partition, or using the 
> ultimate boot cd to make it work

The most obvious way (to me) to do this is to install your local OS which
(if it's linux) should set up GRUB as your boot loader.  You can then
configure grub to have a network boot as one of its options.

I've never done this, so I can't tell you the exact syntax.  However, there
seems to be documentation on it around:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Network
http://osdev.berlios.de/netboot.html
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/PXE_FAQ

Gavin