My Diskless Workstation terminals (LTSP 150) don't appear to allow
access to the bios setup. The DevonIT and Symbiont terminals I have
will boot from USB. Check with diskless workstations. There may be a
way to configure the terminal to boot from USB. I think there is an
option to install a small (2.5") drive in some of their larger terminals.
Jason
Aaron J. Wood wrote:
I am not sure how I would do this. The current test thin client that I have
(1220 PXE for disklessworkstations.com) boots via PXE. I wouldn't know how
to get it to read the image off a flash drive. Would I need to use a
different thin client to boot from flash drives?
Regards,
Aaron J. Wood
Sun Tire Services, Inc
904-693-0990
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Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP vs. Embedded Linux OS Thin Client
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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