Hi Tom,
I agree. However, I have a couple limitations: first, most of
my client machines are going to be across WAN links that will not have
the bandwidth to support TFTP'ing the OS. Secondly, on the server side
we run an all MS shop and my hands are tied in this regard.
Thanks for the advice; I'll look into the distro that you
suggest.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Griffing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:24 AM
To: Matt Bazan
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LAssistance needed in setting up custom LSTP client
Matt;
What you are suggesting is doable, but first ask
yourself:
Why not full LTSP?
LTSP has tremendous advantages over distributions
that are stored in the client device. The primary
advantage is that you don't have to perform updates
on each terminal. Updates are performed on the
server. All terminals immediately get the updates,
since they are accessed over NFS rather than from
storage on the terminal.
If you *have to* have a stand-alone O/S and runtime
(ie "embedded"), I'd suggest you look into a
distribution with those goals, like:
http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/
Hope this helps,
Tom
> I'd like some assistance in formulating my plan of attack for a
thin
> client project I'd like to implement using LTSP. Here's what I need
> to accomplish:
>
> 1) Boot diskless thin client kernel from:
> A) Disk-On-Chip Flash card if kernel image present
> B) if no kernel image on DOC, use DHCP to contact TFTP
> server to download kernel and copy to DOC
> 2) As the client is diskless I'd like to run the OS from either
> a RAMDISK or a temp file system in RAM
> 3) Load X and a RDP client to access MS Term server.
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Pondus Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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