A little work but it can be done...I run a system similar to LTSP but not exactly. When I I do roll outs I dont remote boot the kernel but run either linux on the local disk or a compact flash version of linux that boots locally.
Set the redhat box to boot normally local just like it was... On that machine modify the inittab with the following at the bottom. comment out this line x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon add this one x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query terminalserver.yourdomain.com This will tell the machine to spawn X and query your terminal server for it's display. Now to store data locally you would have to set up a nfs share on the client that exports say something like. /home/boss/email On the terminal server you need to modify the users bash profile or you could do it when he launches the mail program by mounting the nfs remote and then firing the mail client, either way should work. Now if the mail client is told to store data to that nfs mount it is going to write it to the boss's client machine. Now the above would work but this is the way I would really set it up so that it works smoothly. To make this work smooth set the bosses computer to boot to run level 3 and run a login script in his bash_profile. The machine boots to run level 3 at that point he logs into his machine normally. When he logs into his account I would run a little script asking if he would like to run remote or locally. If he chooses locally I would issue a init5 from the script. If the user selected to run remote I would just manually call /etc/X11/bin/X -query terminalserver.yourdomain.com Cliff Baeseman Linux Systems Administrator -----Original Message----- From: User Groups To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/22/04 11:06 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP booting from a notebook but mount /home of local disk instead of LTSP server's hard disk Hi My boss uses Red Hat 9 on his notebook but finds it awefully slow even though the RAM is 256 MB. :-( When I configured his notebook to boot of the LTSP server via lilo it just booted amazingly fast. Can he boot his notebook from the LTSP server, but map the /home/ folder of his local hard disk so that his e-mail is stored locally on his hard disk? Regards Rishi ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ 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
