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>Introduction</TITLE
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>CompaqT1500-Linux HOWTO</TH
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>2. Introduction</H1
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>The T1500 is a Linux based diskless thin client, able to boot off internal FLASH RAM into X. It will acquire TCP/IP information from DHCP, and includes telnet and a WWW browser. In this configuration, the T1500 is useful as a small
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Internet access device.However, the T1500 can also operate as a diskless client, acquiring it's initial
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kernel and root file system from a remote machine (this uses 'TFTP' for the
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1st stage, and 'NFS' for the latter). Compaq provide a CD with a kernel image
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and root file system, along with management tools, but these tools are not needed,
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and have been found to fail on some systems. This will be discussed in the 'Compaq
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Way' section.</P
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>It is also possible to use the Compaq kernel to boot a normal Linux based distribution.
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We use <A
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>Debian</A
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> as an example, but the process
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is fairly generic, and discussed in the 'One True Way' section.</P
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>We will assume:
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A working DNS server on 192.168.1.1 (bookcase) and that this machine will serve
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the kernel and file system
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The T1500 is to be installed as 192.168.1.52 (box).
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The domain is 'house'.
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No special routing is needed.
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In the examples a RedHat server is used, but the specifics should apply to any
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GNU based system.</P
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