RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:05 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-03 Thread John R Pierce
Sorin Srbu wrote: Something just occured to me on this this... Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something like that? Has anybody tried (something similar like) this? how much ram?I

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John R Pierce scribbled on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:40 AM: Sorin Srbu wrote: Something just occured to me on this this... Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something like that? Has

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Stephen Harris
1. Should I just do iSCSI backed diskless setups? Probably doesn't scale well. What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days A quick google found: http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs My first thought: Install a workstation as normal, then tar/untar them onto the NFS

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days A quick google found: http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of NFS? Given good hardware, does this make for a production quality setup? Thanks! jlc

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days A quick google found: http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of NFS? Given good

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The key is mostly sufficient memory so that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs in I/O cache. If the clients had lots of ram (=2Gb), can I disable the swap file altogether? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:17:20PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: The key is mostly sufficient memory so that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs in I/O cache. If the clients had lots of ram (=2Gb), can I disable the swap file altogether? Yup! (That's also