Specifications

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Preparing the Thin Clients
Introduction
After you have installed the 2X ThinClientServer, you can proceed
to install/configure a thin client or computer to boot 2X
ThinClientOS. 2X ThinClientOS can be booted from a storage
device (CD-ROM, hard disk, USB or flash disk) or it can boot over
the network (PXE or Etherboot). Etherboot works very similar to
PXE, however it does not rely on the BIOS of the computer to boot
via the network but on a small boot image copied to a CD-ROM,
floppy disk, a hard disk, USB disk or even the ROM of a network
card.
For more information about the boot methods and how 2X
ThinClientServer works, see Introduction to 2X ThinClientServer.
The 2X ThinClientOS is provided in the form of 2 files and can be
downloaded from the http://www.2x.com/ website. The 2X
ThinClientOS is provided as:
1. an ISO file to burn on a CD-ROM. The file name is called
2XThinClientOS_<version number>.iso. This can be used to:
• boot from the network
• install on to the hard disk or flash disk
• install to a bootable USB disk
• boot from CD
• boot into a set of network diagnostic tools
2. a ZIP file to be installed onto 2X ThinClientServer or else to
be extracted to the TFTP server directory. 2X ThinClientOS
will then be downloaded and booted by thin clients
configured to boot via PXE or Etherboot. The file name is
called 2XThinClientOS_<versionnumber>.zip.
This same file is also used to update the version on the 2X
ThinClientServer, so that thin clients that have 2X
ThinClientOS installed on the hard disk can automatically
download the latest version.