According to Emmanuel Florac <wazoox@free.fr>:
> Le Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:27:19 +0100, Chris Newport a écrit*:
>
> > Basically, yes.
> > BUT you need an intermediate loader such as PROLL because you need to pass
> > some parameters to the Linux kernel.
> > You need at least: ip=dhcp root=nfs rw
>
> Just thinking : maybe the ltsp.org (Linux terminal server) kernel will do
> the trick? It's an x86 kernel, built to network boot a diskless client...

That is, naturally, our ultimate goal - A Linux thin client.

Let me extend my thanks to all who have helped - I am passing the info
back to the Shuttleworth Foundation (who have been offered these machines,
I think from some government institution).

South Africa tends to be a testing ground for a lot of technology -
fly the kite here, see if it crashes - if it does - ah well, at least
there is no European or American eggs on faces.

We have a very mature cellphone culture, so we get lots of fun stuff for
a while - then it goes away :-)

The Shuttleworth Foundation did approach the folks who did the "ROM"
on this (Dover) box, but they wanted the proverbial arm-n-leg to
do it again for Linux.

Per Chris Newport's excellent advice, I have recommended that a couple
of boxes be sent to "David who maintains PROLL" and hopefully fifty
or so schools can benefit from Sun's marketing experiment :-)

I am just excited that TSF is putting money behind Open Source in
South Africa, and I (wizzy) am assisting those schools getting Internet
access as well for an affordable price.

I will monitor this forum for a while, but you can email me as well,
(my address is on /all/ the lists already, so why bother obfuscating :-)
if anyone has further suggestions.

Cheers, Andy!