On Friday 07 June 2002 07:23 am, you wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: > > > >>Working on that package now (LTSP). > > > > > > It's a fairly neat way to solve the problem. Rather than creating a > separate LTSP root, you just export your own root filesystem as read-only > and all_squash (i.e. only files accessible to all users are visible on the > export). You need to be running in security level 2 for this to work (in > 3 and higher mode o+r is missing from many crucial files).
Seems a bit inflexible and a method prone to many unknowns. That would make me nervous until and unless I saw it running for a time at many a variety of sites to ensure it can still be twisted to meet the specific requirements of each. > > This means that any application installed on the server is instantly > available to be run as a local app on the diskless terminal. Yes... I very nice upside.....although there are good arguments for not having this.......including security, differentiation for different hardware, etc. > > It also uses the stock Mandrake kernel, instead of requiring LTSP kernels. > A small patch to Etherboot (which has been added to Etherboot CVS; I have > commit access) causes the NIC to identify itself to the DHCP server. The > mkinitrd-net package takes care of creating initrds for each network > module and sets up the DHCP server so that the correct kernel+initrd > automatically gets selected by the Etherboot code. Very painless. I was under the impression that a lot of work was done in getting the images for LTSP as it is. Each different piece of hardware may very likely require different kernals. Not only that, but different X servers. The ThinkNIC, for example, requires the xvesa server in order not to blur graphics on screen. Many particularities exist for various different motherboards. Intel's DX810E requires USB drivers for the mouse/keyboard and printer. This is all likely to be very different then for the host. Matthew > > Michael -- Anything that can be logically explained, can be programmed.
