help setting up a slave machine ...

[Jan Pfeifer <janpf@iname.com>]

hi,

I have a spare machine (a PIII 550) without monitor/keyboard/mouse nor
_hd_, but with onboard (SIS) ethernet card, disk (3 1/2) and cdrom
drives. I want to set up a small LAN with my main machine (debian
woody, kernel 2.4.9) as a server, and this machine just to run some
CPU intensive (but not disk intesive) tasks.

How do I do this ? Any pointers to HOWTO's/manuals I should read to
build this would be very helpful. 

thanx 

:-)

jan

ps.: I think what I need is:

1) make a boot disk able to load the rest of the system using NFS (or a
CD, I have access to a burner here)

2) see the same /home and possibly the same /usr and part of the same
/etc, to make it easier to just "ssh" tasks in the other machine

is that right ?