On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:44:05AM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > I must say that trying to figure out LTSP has been an exercise in > frustration. The website is difficult to browse. The HOWTOs are > anecdotal, un-professional, they display poorly on Mozilla and are > difficult to read.
so I personnaly encourage you to show us how you can improve things... take the poorly written doc, go to you bedroom until 4 am and rewrite a professionnal HowTo .. I will appreciate it my grand mother said to me if you dont like it dont disgust the others ;-) or dont use LTSP if it is so hard? personnaly , i dont read or write very well english, and i build a working LTSP server with etherboot client in 1 or 2 days.. time to read the doc, try, and correct 2 or 3 problems i think people will answer your questions if you dont start by personnal frustration... good luck... > > The main page is a gignatic mass of text which appears to have no real > content. but which page are you reading? russian economist papers? > > I have read much of the documentation and I have gained very little > understanding of LTSP. I don't know the hardware requirements, or how it > actually works. you need: 1 LTSP server (Linux machine) running a XDMCP service you need also 1 DHCP service + 1 TFTP service + 1 NFS service at least 1 diskless PC an ethernet switch preferably 100Bb/s > > It would be good to have a high-level explanation of how to actually > set up a network with LTSP instead of hiding the main concepts behind a > sea of details. Details are certainly necessary, but I also need a > high-level understanding of LTSP before the details can make sense. > > It doesn't help me to know that your workstation has a Linksys LNE100TX, > version 4.1 card. What I need to know is whether the workstation has to > be a full computer or not. Can I get by without a hard drive? Do I need > a floppy drive? What the heck is etherboot? > > I'd like a high-level explanation of what goes on at the workstation end. > In particular, I need to know what new hardware we would have to buy to > get LTSP working. Currently we have Solaris workstations. I'd like to > know what we can reuse, and what we need to buy anew. > > Best, > -- > Daniel Carrera | Aleph-0 bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-0 bottles > PhD student. | of beer. Take one down, pass it around, Aleph-0 > Math Dept. | bottles of beer on he wall... > UMD, | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Aleph-0.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC > GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from > any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! > https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net -- Maurice Libes Tel : +33 (04) 91 82 93 25 Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille Fax : +33 (04) 91 82 65 48 UMS2196 CNRS- Campus de Luminy, Case 901 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] F-13288 Marseille cedex 9 Annuaire : http://annuaire.univ-aix.fr/showuser.php?uid=libes ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
