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 > You might want to check out School District #73 in Kamloops BC's website. http://www.sd73.bc.ca/tux/ They are doing exactly what you're talking about. However they are only using the HD for the linux image. You will really want to bump up the RAM. They found that with 30 clients they needed at least 2GB of RAM. They also use dual processor boxes. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
