regular ubuntu + thin client on the same PC

Krsnendu dasa krsnendu108 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 21:06:50 BST 2007


Another option is to use the session menu and login to another computer
using xdmcp .

On 13/08/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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