Check carefully what your users want to do. Make sure you have a Linux equivalent for *all* their applications. I'm willing to bet there will be a few 'must have' applications that are Windoze only. You probably need to reserve one PC as a Windoze ghetto just to run those apps. Put it in a really distant corner of the campus - the janitors' broom cupboard is perfect.
And what do they use those scanners and CD-ROMs for? I know LTSP is improving all the time, but I don't think it can handle scanners or CD-ROMS attached to workstations. One shared scanner attached to the server may not be quite what they want. If you're still ok, I'd suggest you take one of the nodes that they're happy to let you trash and set it up temporarily as an LTSP server. Create a few boot floppies for a couple of other nodes and you can set up enough of a 'proof of concept' to convince yourself and your client that you know what you're doing without having done anything irreversible (except to the one node you trashed). If everyone's still happy, you can then think about rebuilding the server with lots more RAM. It's cheap, and you may well find you don't need any of the horrors of local apps or local swap. If your clients really want the hard disks used, you can write a little script to make the hard disk lights flash from time to time. That way they get what they want and they never have to back up all those disks :-) The golden rule is to keep it as simple as possible - i.e. everything on the server, nothing on the client - unless there is some massive massive reason for doing otherwise. IMHO - John On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:04:21 +0530 "Adrian D'Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am being assigned a project for a school. They have a tight budget. > Right now the are on a windows 2000 server and 28 nodes. > The server is P III 800 Mhz, 64 mb ram, 40 GB hdd and a DSL connection > using a usb modem. > > The nodes P III, 450 Mhz, 64 mb ram, 40 GB HDD. Some have cdroms > some scanners. All the NICs are Rl8193 > > I plan to use RH 7.0 or RH 7.2. I will be using ltsp obviously. The > server ram has to increase too. Right now they have the usual MS > works and paying too much of licence and other things associated with > MS. I have them a suggestion to switch to Linux. The accepted the > offer. Their only request is that they need to utlise each node's > harddisk. They would be using Netscape, StarOffice, Java and the usual > stuff for schools. I have some knowledge in Linux but not > successfully in installing ltsp on my home systems. I think I can use > local applications and would use each harddisk etherboot to the server > using etherboot's lilo option. So I need you people's assistance in > what would be the best way. > > Thanks > > Adrian > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
