Technical:Bootprocess
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| Thin Client | Terminal Server |
| 1. Power on and send DHCP request. | 2. Receive request, send reply with IP address and name of file to download. |
| 3. Send TFTP request for the kernel. | 4. Receive request, starting sending blocks of data. |
| 5. Start executing kernel, initialize devices, run /linuxrc, detect NIC, send DHCP request for more information. | 6. Receive request, send reply, including IP address and root-path for the NFS filesystem. |
| 7. NFS mount /opt/ltsp/i386 then do a pivot root to make it the root filesystem. | 8. Grant the mount request, serve data via NFS. |
| 9. Run rc.sysinit, then launch X server for GUI session. Send XDMCP query to the server. | 10. Receive the XDMCP request and display a login box on the workstation.
?> Boot process table courtesy of and approved by Marvin Pascual. |
