Re: Diskless workstations

2007-07-24 Thread Ronny Aasen
> I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a DHCP > router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware that I > would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS. [SNIP] > The other method is, of course, LTSP. I have found outlines of how to s

Re: Diskless workstations

2007-07-24 Thread Sudev Barar
On 25/07/07, Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't actually have Linux installed on my system at the moment, and am wavering between installing Debian 4.0 and Edubuntu, which has LTSP capabilities built in: Edubuntu is still not fully rolled out with LTSP kinks removed. Go with Ubuntu

Re: Diskless workstations

2007-07-24 Thread Robert Kopp
Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 24/07/07, Robert Kopp wrote: > I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a DHCP > router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware that I > would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS. [SNIP]

Re: Diskless workstations

2007-07-24 Thread Sudev Barar
On 24/07/07, Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a DHCP router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware that I would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS. [SNIP] The other method is, of

Diskless workstations

2007-07-24 Thread Robert Kopp
I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a DHCP router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware that I would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS. PXES is a live client CD, for those hoping to accomplish the job with relatively li

Diskless workstations

2007-07-24 Thread Robert Kopp
I would like to try this technology. I have DSL delivered through a DHCP router, a computer capable enough to be a server, and other hardware that I would like to become clients. I expect to use Lenny as the OS. PXES is a live client CD, for those hoping to accomplish the job with relatively li

Diskless workstations with cluster-nfs

2001-03-06 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I have a setup of diskless mosix workstations using cluster-NFS. I have 3 directories for every workstation. /dev /tmp /var I have a problem with /var. It is that programs like locate/updatedb and apt-get uses /var to store a database. But I would like share this database between every work

Re: netbook and diskless workstations

1997-09-15 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Colin" == Colin R Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> Does anyone have any experience using netboot? Look into the `transnames' kernel patch; which I think might be part of the 2.1.x kernels now. With that, I think you could boot a '95 workstation with a floppy. The kernel on

Re: netbook and diskless workstations

1997-09-10 Thread Jim Pick
> Is it possible to use netboot to boot > these machines from floppy to run off of one of the debian machines? I don't know about netboot - but the nfsroot package does this. Pretty slick. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpIx7sU3NN5U.pgp Description: PGP signature

netbook and diskless workstations

1997-09-09 Thread Colin R. Telmer
Does anyone have any experience using netboot? My department has a number of Windows machines and a couple of fast Debian machines in one room all on a net. After plugging debian and X enough, the debian machine consoles are always busy but some students still are using windows, so I can't convert