On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We thought the might be two possibilites. > > 1) boot the clients over the network (WAN) ? > > I'll leave others to answer this one - but I doubt it's practical - > unless you > have huge bandwidth. > > > 2) install just enough on the thinclients to get the NX client > going. > > > > The thinclients we are using have a 512MB Flash memory that we can > use > > as a hard drive. > > As suggested by Rob Owens previously, you could make a custom boot CD > based on > something lightweight, like Puppy or Damn Small Linux, and include the > NX > Client. Both of these distros are designed to work with absurdly low > amounts > of disk space and 512MB would be a luxury. [snip] Why the heartache? 512M would be enough for a local ltsp boot and fast. CDs are a pain in comparison, but if you have a CD drive it makes updating the image easy and quick when you occasionally update the image James
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