Dan Scherer wrote:
LTSP will do this just fine. Use local apps but you may have difficulty if you need special libraries.I need to build a number of diskless workstations along the following steps: 1. PXE boot 2. DHCP resolution 3. Load an OS (A shell session is fine, I don't need a GUI interface) 4. Map a network share (where the application bits live) 5. Launch an application that runs on the workstation not the server (Read: Not a TS client)
6. Connect to the internet for updatesYour server will have to do this
Have a look at DIET PC. It is not as feature complete as LTSP but it makes an excellent basis for specialist applications.
Has anyone setup something similar using LTSP as a starting point? From my limited understanding, it appears that the end goal in most situations is a Terminal Server client, but since I want to harness the CPU power of the workstations I need the application to run locally.
I tried using the "Thinstation" project that I found on sourceforge and it works great, except that it is a pure TS client. If I could find an appropriate NBI file that just drops me to a networked Linux shell rather than launching a TS session I would be golden :)
It does not need an NFS server but just uses TFTP and relies on fitting everything into RAM. With RAM so cheap these days, it's not a bad idea.
The doco for DIET PC is pretty good (from memory).
I am fluent with Micro$oft products and have a Win2k box and a Mandrake
one as well to load and run any services/application/session managers
that may be needed. The client hardware is PXE enabled and currently
they have 128mb of RAM on each.
I am rather new to Linux, hence the "newbie" questions, any comments are appreciated!
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