On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:38:31 -0000 (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I now want to move on to the next stage which is to build the front end. > I want this to be diskless and boot over the network. > > I would be very interested in any recomendations for Linux distros / > boot methods to achieve this with minimum hassle. Preferably I dont > even want to use floppy, flash, etc to boot the the frontend, just boot > over network (PXE or whatever).
I have had great success using HP's current line of thin client hardware with clusterKnoppix as well as Red Hat (using LTSP). I'll bet that, without too much trouble, knoppmyth could import the PXE booting functionality from ClusterKnoppix and boot right into the front end. I'm not far enough along with my myth install yet to try this out (just got started with myth yesterday, and I'm only maybe 60% of the way there to getting my master host working completely). > At the moment I am thinking Knoppix served via Knoppix terminal > services either on the backend or another Linux host (which I also have > available). OK I didn't know that the regular knoppix had terminal services. Be careful. Does the terminal service in Knoppix just run a remote desktop? Or does the desktop run locally on the thin client, merely PXE booting from the Knoppix server and mounting its filesystems from Knoppix server via NFS? I don't imagine the remote desktop type of terminal server would work well at all with Myth. I'm somewhat impressed with KnoppMyth guiding me through the initial installation. I would like to have seen it done more to make sure my optical drives were properly recognized (they're not) or that my capture card was recognized (had to be manually added). lircd doesn't work with the PVR-250 remote yet. So there are some rough edges there. But I think it would be a great foundation for booting diskless front ends. -- -=[Magnus Meinfretr]=- http://yonderway.com/magnus
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