On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 at 10:09, Mark Anthony J. Mercado wrote:
> many say ltsp is ready for primetime :)
Thanks to you and Ian I'm checking this out right now.
> eeprom burners are kinda expensive... but it's possible to purchase
> EEPROM's from www.disklessworkstations.com for major NIC's.
I will check this out, too, thanks!
> another solution is to use a floppy bootdisk ... www.rom-o-matic.net
> which simulates a bootable NIC
I would rather not use a floppy for stability issues. I've a phobia with
floppies failing. If I cannot (or if it's not economical) use EEPROMs for
the NICs installed, I will just use their hard drives and have a base or
at least a boot setup and a kernel with root-NFS installed there. :)
> > I wonder, though, for those who have "been there, done that" and have the
> > time to read the article and help me out: if everything is installed on
> > the server, with the client root filesystem in a subdirectory hosted via
> > NFS, how are a variety of hardware handled?
>
> everything runs as a process on the server. the clients are just used
> to display the desktop.
I know this, and this is exactly why I want to do remote X. However, my
question was not exactly what you answered. Let me elaborate. The root
filesystem of all the workstations will be hosted on an NFS share. This
will contain, among others, the X server binaries and their configuration
files. Now, given that I have a common XF86Config, how will XFree86 handle
the fact that each video card and monitor (on the various workstations)
will probably need a unique setup? While there will be a bunch that will
share common configs, there will be another bunch that will share a common
but different (compared to the first) config.
If I store the kernel, the X server, and the XF86Config file on the
workstations' hard drives I will not have a problem with this. Plus I
don't have to bother with root-NFS. However, I will need to do upgrades of
the Linux kernel, the XFree86 server binaries, and the basic Linux
utilities on each of the workstations all the time. This is still much
better than the current Windows setup, or the entire Linux system on the
workstations, but I was just hoping maintance could be made even more
centralized (and by centralized I don't just mean ssh'ing into the
workstations from a central point). :)
Anyway, I will be checking the sites mentioned above, and hope to find
enlightenment. I also hope that "X -query server" will not need a local
userbase aside from root that will run this process.
> I'm also planning to migrate our workstations. Right now, I'm starting
> to use VNC first before really migrating to dumb terminals ...
How are you going along? I tried VNC awhile back, but found that it was
rather slow. The benefit with VNC is the ability to just "turn off" your
terminal and continue working elsewhere. Somewhat like the Sun thin
client. :)
--> Jijo
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