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2. General Overview

Generally speaking there are the following problems for the workstation:

The current implementation of NFSROOT in the Linux kernel (as of 1.3.7x) allows for the following ``solutions'':

Before starting to setup a discless enviroment, you should decide if you will be booting via LILO or LOADLIN. The advantage of doing so is flexibility, the disadvantage is speed. Booting a Linux kernel without LILO is faster. This may or may not be a consideration.


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