Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> Another way to come at a "Diskless" machine nowadays is just to install >> Fedora on a USB stick (2GB will do fine) and use a common network >> filesystem. That significantly reduces what is expected of the server >> box down to just pushing files around on demand. > This would depend on the age of the client machine. A lot of older > pentium, PII and PIII boxes only had USB 1.x interfaces which would be > extremely slow, but most were capable of PXE booting and if they have a > decent video card can be good thin clients. True... probably worse for such a machine it probably won't have BIOS support for USB flash drive boot anyway. You would need a machine from the last couple of years (which I guess is old enough they are starting to get pensioned off at some places, anyway). -Andy
