Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-31 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Sorry if I'm coming into this late, I've been away from the list for a while and blew away the 3k messages I hadn't read so only caught the last post of this thread I've been working on an NFS root installer, which starts off essentially diskless so it can repartition the harddrive(s). O

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > definitly. at freegeek.org we run 10+ machines sans disks by using a > diskless setup, and getting their x sessions from another box completely. > the server i belive is a dual ppro 180.and we've been using client > machines o

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Forrest English
definitly. at freegeek.org we run 10+ machines sans disks by using a diskless setup, and getting their x sessions from another box completely. the server i belive is a dual ppro 180.and we've been using client machines of 486 and pentiums on a 10Mb network. so, i think you'll be fine with th

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:08:55PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with > pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor > 128 MB Ram > one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive > ethernet card > So

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:08:55PM +, joe golden wrote: | Can I use this as a *server* for a 12 machine linux network. | | Main workstation uses will be internet research and word processing. I'm | sure this machine could function fine as a NFS file server and proxy server | for web pages.

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Nate Amsden
joe golden wrote: > > Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with > pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor > 128 MB Ram > one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive > ethernet card > Sony RW drive > Can I use this as a *server* for a

12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread joe golden
Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor 128 MB Ram one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive ethernet card Sony RW drive Can I use this as a *server* for a 12 machine linux network. Main wo