Can you take the images created by LTSP 5 and put them on local media
(like a flash drive) to boot the terminal without needing to download
the image over the network?
Aaron J. Wood wrote:
Hello All,
Here is my situation. We are a 10 (soon to be 11) store automotive retail
tire and service company. We currently have our own AS400 at our corporate
office that runs our point of sale/inventory/accounting system that is
networked to our retail locations via a dedicated frame relay network (Yuck!
Hate it! Too slow! Too Expensive!). The point of sale (POS) terminals are
currently dumb terminals (Computer Labs International ET2000's) that do
green screen 5250 terminal and printer emulation and connect back to the
AS400. I am in the process of researching options to provide better
functionality to our store operators. I would like to have the same
functionality that we have now (I have looked into tn5250) and add office
applications, email, and a web browser.
My original idea was to replace the frame network with DSL/Cable internet
access at each retail location and establish Ipsec VPN tunnels back to the
corporate router and do PXE boot at the retail locations. Some of you read
my previous post about PXE booting via a VPN tunnel and thank you for the
help. Although I did get it to work, the time that it takes to download the
kernel and mount the file system eliminates it as a viable option. I am not
sure if reducing the kernel size will help, but it seems that the transfer
rate over the VPN is just too slow. So I am back to the drawing board.
Perhaps there is a way to eliminate the VPN tunnel for the boot process. I
am open to suggestions.
I know that one option is to have a local boot server at each of the 10
retail stores, but I would like to avoid adding that much hardware. I have
only recently delved into Linux and am learning things every day. My
question is about LTSP vs embedded Linux OS thin clients. What are the
pros/cons of local boot servers and PXE boot thin clients versus Linux OS
embedded thin clients. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Aaron J. Wood
Sun Tire Services, Inc
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