That's pretty much where I was about to go. The base system needs to be am image that can be dumped directly to each terminal. Everything other than that--/usr, /bin, /sbin, /home, and so on, can be NFS mounted. The matter of /etc and /var comes to mind. It might be good to have these NFS mounted as well, but resident on the server, and spesific to each terminal. (with /etc. You would only have to do it with parts of /var, I believe, such as /var/log, /var/lock, /var/run, etc..) Luke On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi, Alex. What you would want to do is have all of the clients boot via an > bootp server which you would configure on your server. In order for this to > be successful the client machines must have a PXE-capable NIC and the system > BIOS must support booting via TCP/ip. You would use NFS to export /home, > /usr, etc. to the client machines so they would have access to any shared > directories on the server you would want. As far as making the machines > boot, you would create an image directory on the server that would include > the kernel, etc. the machines would need. I'll try and dig up some how-to's > for you here, but this should get you pointed in the right place. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 3:17 PM > Subject: terminal servers > > > > Hi all. I have a lot of crap hardware around here I can probably turn > > into some really low-end machines. I would like to use these machines > > mostly 486dx's and early pentiums as diskless terminals. > > I took a look at the ltsp but it doesn't seem like it will run on > > slackware. Does anyone know where I could look to get started on setting > > up a terminal server and it's clients? > > > > -- > > Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
