----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Erik Heil" <eheil at patmedia.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:00 PM Subject: Re: terminal servers > 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 > >
