[Sderby] Meetings and hard drives

[David Bottrill]

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 11:11, Kris Adcock wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Linux distribution which ONLY does remote X-windows
> stuff. Basically, the 'floppy or CDR' that is mentioned below? I'm about to
> setup the office of a local charity with a computer system, and its highly
> likely that it will be an LTSP system with a SuSE 8.0 server. But I have
> some small hard-discs (around 400 meg) which I could install such a
> distribution on, rather than finding network cards with boot sockets and
> making the ROMs.

Have a look at LTSP they have just what you need, also they tell you how
to configure the whole shooting match from client through to the server.

You can either burn a boot EPROM (instructions supplied) for most
suitable network cards, or make a bootable floppy, the main X-windows
client is downloaded by TFTP from the main server so the boot
requirement is only a few hundred KB in size. I was reading a review
about a LTSP project a few weeks ago and the writer was saying how he
had built a client with a low spec Pentium, with no CPU fan, he removed
the fan from the PSU and used a boot ROM. He therefore ended up with a
totally silent client. He later replaced all the PCs in his office with
similar clients and the silence was so noticeable they could hear the
clock ticking for the first time.

David


> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sderby-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:sderby-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Dominic Knight
> > Sent: 30 August 2002 01:07
> > To: sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Sderby] Meetings and hard drives
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 29 August 2002 22:11, Clive Jones wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 Aug 2002 9:06 am, Dominic Knight wrote:
> > > > We will be setting these machines up as dual boot so will
> > have to spend
> > > > some time with both this and partitioning for those who
> > want to come
> > > > along and learn about these subjects.
> > >
> > > Have you considered LTSP?  You could set one dual boot
> > machine as the
> > > server, then have all the other machines as clients by
> > booting them off a
> > > floppy or cdr.  Just a thought,
> > >
> > > C.
> > >
> > No but I will certainly look into it. One of the things I
> > would like to do
> > though is set up a number of differing systems Debian based
> > vs rpm based and
> > linuxconf vs yast etc. LTSP would be good as an extension to
> > this as well as
> > maybe a BYO type, any more ideas from anyone? It should make
> > a really good
> > collection  of demo machines,  what we need as well  is
> > people to demo things
> > to ;)
> >
> > Dom
> >
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