fracturedmind

I was thinking of making a new computer for a file server / general server (web, maybe mail) ... but I want to cut costs, I don't want keyboard, mouse, monitor, graphics card, sound, etc.

I was thinking of getting one of those new small cases, a nice motherboard (probably nForce2, so I can have onboard (pref. 2) ethernet) and an Athlon XP chip, 512 mgs of RAM, a nice powersupply, and a big hard-drive (maybe one for OS, one for storage).

I was wondering if anyone could explain if this would be possible: First, I want to use Linux, probably Gentoo (my favorite), so my plan is to SSH (telnet, basically) into it to use it (fast so I can encode movies, etc, in the console)... I'll set up sharing, so I can copy files from my windows machines using Samba...

My only problem would be installation, I don't want a CD Drive even, I understand with new boards (like my current one) you can boot off the network... what do I need to setup for that? I'd like to put this computer together, and be able to possibly boot off the Gentoo CD on my current computer, and once it's booted, I can ssh in and install it from my current computer... right?

Or how does network booting work? Ideas? Comments?

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