Hello Angel,
Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 4:58:41 PM, you wrote:
AG> 1) Does every workstation need to be configured on the server?
AG> I think what I want to ask here is, would it be possible for me to plug a
AG> workstation into the network, enter a boot disk and fire it up, with no
AG> additional configuration?
depends.
If in your configurations, all workstations use similar hardware (same
type of nic and graphics cards, mostly) then you only need to have the
"standard" values in dhcpd.conf be set "reasonable", probably it looks
somewhat wildly along these lines (writing from brain)
\\\dhcpd.conf
use-host-decl-names on;
option domain-name "lts-machines.example.com";
option domain-name-servers 10.0.3.254;
filename "/vmlinuz.ltsp";
option root-path "10.0.3.254:/opt/ltsp/i386";
subnet 10.0.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.0.3.1 10.0.3.199;
option routers 10.0.3.254;
}
///dhcpd.conf ends
and your lts.conf inside /opt/ltsp/i386/etc might contain
machine-dependent sections only with hardware addresses like
[00:cc:aa:ee:12:18] (if you need them at all)
Should be no problem.
AG> 2) Is it possible for clients to access local hardware, such as harddrives,
AG> floppy drives?
AG> This would greatly simplify many of the tasks I had to do.
floppy: see ltsp website. I think harddrive could work along the same
line of thinking, but that's without reading the stuff. You probably
could figure that out for yourself.
AG> And Finally,
AG> 3) In the documentation, I noticed that the clients swap files, are stored
AG> on the server, via NFS. If 20 clients are all doing memory intensive tasks,
AG> wouldn't this slow down the whole operation?
3: There is no need to use swap over NFS if your boxes have some
decent configuration of ram. running them on 8M will probably be no
nice idea, that's what swap-over-nfs is for.
AG> Thanks in advance!
HTH
Anselm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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