Mark Cooke wrote: > > I'll startoff by giving a quick breif of a project Ive been asked to do: > > As a company we have about 60 operators in a department handling calls for a call >centre, > which they are all currently running NT, what I want to do, is replace all of those >to run > RedHat. > > But what I want to do is not have a hard disk (or only a small one if needed), so >everything > is kept in memory or a ramdisk to allow them to boot from off a cdrom only, and then >have > access to say sawfish, which will only allow them to use say Mozilla,Gcalc, and >Gedit and > access a remote share using samba where they can write any data they wish to save. > > This will totally lock them down to what they can use and ease maintanence, so any > problems, they just reboot and they are backup and running. > > The network info will be using dhcp to obtain the network info they require. > > This as Ive read will require kickstart to duplicate the install for every machine >and also I > will have to patch grub (to use the company Logo) and sawfish, this I know can be >done > using kickstart (after reading the man pages), then make a bootable cdrom that can be > used in each machine > > I know this can (hopefully) be done (as Ive seen it with firewalls) > Could anyone possably give me any help or links where I can get any help/Info on this > ---- I would recommend that you look at linux terminal server project <http://www.ltsp.org/index.php>
Not what you were asking for but in a way, it is... Craig -- ----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----| - Craig White - PO Box 8634 - Scottsdale, Arizona - 85252 - e-mail address ................ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - world wide web address ........ - http://www.AzApple.com - e-mail my pager address ....... - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - cellular phone ................ - (602) 377-9752 - voice/facsimile ............... - (480) 945-8445 ----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----|----:----| _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
