Diskless clients

Diskless clients require two things, a method for booting and a boot image to download. The method for booting is usually a boot PROM that uses BOOTP and TFTP to download the boot image from a boot server. The boot image to download can be resident on any server that supports BOOTP and TFTP: the server does not even have to run UNIX. Before the downloading mechanism will work, you will have to configure the BOOTP services correctly on your boot server.

Any alterations to the boot image must be made on the installation server and then re-installed on the boot server.

If the boot server is an SCO OpenServer system, you can also install the administrative utilities of the toolkit on the server, thus enabling you to monitor and control certain aspects of the diskless client's behavior.