Hi Joseph, We are still working out the parameter for the project, but there are basically two parts. One, the standard LTSP-mosix setup for local client clustering, and the second part in which we will probably need a minimalist install of Linux with about the same standards as the LTSP client on a local drive but without any of the extra applications that are normally added by the larger distributions such as RedHat and Mandrake. In the second type, we will be adding our own special applications as needed and wish to keep it as small as possible.
The LTSP looks good and a lot of work seems to have gone into its design. In the past I have set up a few diskless systems and had noticed that the bandwidth for the price of the NFS communications seems to be one of the major hit in performance factors, and at the time was unacceptable for my particular needs on those systems. Cheers, Lonnie :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Jamieson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lonnie Cumberland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:37 AM Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] general question > > You could still use a central XDM host with the machines with hard > disks, without using LTSP. > > There's advantages to using LTSP/Diskless though. If you need to > upgrade any of the sofware that the clients are running (X for example), > or the kernel, or anything of that nature, you do it on a central > server. > > The downfall of diskless terminals is that they are somewhat limited in > reguards to the caliber of applications you could run, when used in a > normal LTSP fashion. > > If you need to run local applications that require fast disk I/O and > intensive graphics, you would probably want a full OS on a local hard > disk anyways. > > LTSP seems to be geared toward turning older/inexpensive PC's into full > featured X Terminals, with some cool stuff like floppy/sound. > > Knowing what kind of project you are working on would help answer your > questions. > > And just a note, the ramdisk is just loaded to boot the initial OS with > the proper network drivers and such. What you mean is the NFS "drive" > (filesystem). I think. > > -j > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lonnie Cumberland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:22 PM > To: Joseph Jamieson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] general question > > Yea, I guess that you are right about this as well, but I was > investigating > all of the possibilities and configuration options. > > Thanks, > Lonnie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph Jamieson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Lonnie Cumberland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:13 AM > Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] general question > > > > > > You can use local drive space for swap I believe, but if you are > talking > about using a local root filesystem instead of the NFS mounted > filesystem, > would it not make sense to just install linux directly on these machines > and > forget the whole LTSP/network booting stuff? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lonnie Cumberland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:05 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] general question > > > > Hello All, > > > > I am new to this list and am very interested in the possible use for > the > LTSP for a project that I am working on, but please forgive me if I ask > a > few stupid questions while I get up to speed on things, ok. > > > > In my project, there may be a desire to remove the ramdisk drive on > the > clients machines and have a physical ext2 or ext3 filesystem on local > client > drives. I think that this would require a re-compile of the LTSP > kernels. > > > > Does any one have any information on this that might be helpful? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Lonnie > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
