[sf-lug] Diskless Workstation/Fat Client

[Tom Haddon]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:50 -0700, Ernest de Leon wrote:
> do you mean something akin to an NFS root?

Yep.

Please see these for more details:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/LtspDisklessWorkstation
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481384
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, Tom

> 
> Ernest
> 
> On 10/2/07, Tom Haddon <tom at greenleaftech.net> wrote:
>         
>         On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:31 -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
>         > hi
>         >
>         > On 10/2/07, Tom Haddon <tom at greenleaftech.net> wrote:
>         >         I'm a little confused - are you using Thin Client or
>         Fat
>         >         Client/Diskless
>         >         Workstation? We're specifically trying to avoid Thin
>         Client 
>         >         because of
>         >         the hardware setup we have...
>         >
>         > We have a mix.  All of our clients have hard drives, but
>         some of them
>         > have Windows 98 installed on the HDs, simply because we have
>         not been 
>         > able to get any Linux live CDs to boot on those systems for
>         the
>         > purpose on installing to get a swap partition.  But I would
>         definitely
>         > recommend that you have HDs and that you install Linux
>         natively on 
>         > each HD so that you can get a swap partition in the event
>         you exceed
>         > the memory capacity on individual systems' RAM.
>         
>         Hi Christian,
>         
>         By "Fat Client/Diskless Workstation" I don't mean a fully
>         operational OS 
>         installed on the local disk. I mean the OS is installed on the
>         server,
>         you boot from the network and then mount the root filesystem
>         from the
>         server - effectively your hard disk is on the server but all
>         other
>         resources (RAM, CPU, display, etc.) are being run from the
>         local
>         machine.
>         
>         I think from what you've said here, you're using Edubuntu in a
>         Thin
>         Client setting (and then some machines non-Edubuntu for the
>         reasons 
>         outlined above). We're not trying to go that route because our
>         server
>         doesn't have sufficient resources and our clients have much
>         better
>         resources (relatively speaking).
>         
>         Thanks, Tom
>         
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