Hi > Thanks a lot for the info. I am going to attempt what you have suggested, sounds to > me like this is very duable with LTSP. And I am glad to know that. BTW, I tried > using the link below and it did not work, can you please resend it? > > The reason we do not wish to use NFS primarily is to do with issues like, our > current hw design, high availability, security etc. We do not wish for our diskless > client to go down if the NFS server dies. Since this is a telco-grade product, we > design to eliminate any single points of failure. The diskless engine does have a > need to write some state info to a persistent store, but that would be accomplished > by the application(s) itself. > > I have a followon question regarding the std LTSP kernel. Can I use the SLES8 (SuSE > linux Enterprise Server 8) kernel if I wanted to as my diskless client kernel? Is > the standard LTSP kernel based on a particular distribution?
For my embedded stuff I have used bog-standard ltsp-4 (built from cvs), fiddled the package list to not include X stuff, which I don't need, re-done linuxrc and rc.sysinit. IE flash -> ramdisk. This would do LTSP in the exact same way, but you will need 200MB ram for root fs + say 128M. If you want, please mail me James > Having to load an initial image of 70 MB or so would take a quite > long time to boot. You would have to rely on an XDMCP server anyway (for > graphical stuff).... For further discussion, having an outline of the > product you intend to build could be of help. 70 MB loads in a few secs, but LTSP root is 200M (say 10 secs from flash, the non-X 70MB compresses to 24M) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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
