Hi Greetings to all
Am brand new to this list - and am beginning by asking for some help. Background - am trying to setup a small LTSP setup for education in a remote part of india - low on all kinds of resources. And want to make sure that kids from my village begin their computer education using open source. At present i have a Celeron, and two 486's - all with power hungry CRT's. have been using ubuntu for the past 2 years and linux for the last 3. In order to undertake the set up i have the following queries: 1. Can the Celeron - with a RAM and HD upgrade perform as an LTSP server - and what would be the ideal RAM size. 2. Can the 486's become thin clients - how can i utilise, effectively, their existing HD's. 3. For such old machines - the 486's - which boot system would be ideal - ethernet, pxe, rpl or any other. I would like them to boot without needing a floppy or cd - mainly because the floppy drive is unreliable. 4. What network cards would i need to buy for the clients and the server. *This is really urgent as i need to ask someone to buy the stuff and send it across as a friend is travelling to this place for delhi) Which is preferable PCI or ISA will the server autodetect the pci cards - and do i need to buy an special pci cards (pxe enabled or such) 5. Since i am familiar with Ubuntu is it advisable to stick to Ubuntu's LTSP- (my place has only dial up and that too unreliable so apt get is difficult) but I have the entire Ubuntu 6.06 repository with me - would this be adequate to configure Ubuntu LTSP I did read the Ubuntu issues section on ltsp.org - is Muekow preferable ? 6. How far can the clients be from the Server. I did try reading all the notes and relevant info available on the LTSP.org but gratefully look forward to you advise (esp. urgently for question 4) thanks Ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
