On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:18:25PM +1000, James Newburrie wrote:
> the question I have is for an experiment I am trying for my own curiosity.
> I want to setup a server from which a few diskless machines can be connected
> to and boot from the network into an X-Windows environment. What is
> involved in this project? Are there any step by step sites which you could
> recommend to help with this experiment? Is any special hardware required,
> or any particular network card?
>
> The machines would all be x86 based and almost under resourced (eg P75-200
> with 16-32Mb RAM). From what I have read this would be sufficient for the
> "terminals". I come from a microsoft background (and understand the
> fundimentals of networking) and have played a little with a few linux
> distributions, but need to know more.
This should be a fun project. Two links that may give you some pointers:
(1) The Linux Terminal Server Project...
http://www.ltsp.org/index.php
(2) Jamie Zawinski's description of how he tried to make more or less
indesctructible internet kiosks for his nightclub...
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/
The first link sounds more like what you are after, but the second one
is interesting, too. Particularly if you are trying to think of "what
else can go wrong".
Cheers,
Malcolm
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