[Sderby] Meetings and hard drives

[Kris Adcock]

Oh, I must have missed the floppy-version. I'll have another shufty.

LTSP sounds ideal for what I need. Seen those cute 29 quid mini-desktops in
Potts window? I managed to get a few of those before they dissapeared (they
make very good Smoothwall boxes), and I'll be using those for clients.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sderby-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:sderby-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of David Bottrill
> Sent: 31 August 2002 01:00
> To: sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [Sderby] Meetings and hard drives
>
>
> 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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