[Sderby] Meetings and hard drives

[David Bottrill]

Didn't see those it's been a few weeks since I last went to Potts,
although they usually have some cheap boxes.

Dave

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 14:16, Kris Adcock wrote:
> 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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