Re: Designing a Linux lab.
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:
> Hi.
>
> We have some Linux servers, and we want to build a new computer lab. We
> basically have two choices:
>
> 1. Install NT on all of them, and work with Xceed.
> 2. Install a dual boot Linux/NT on them.
>
> I'd like it to be the dual boot (If it was up to me, we wouldn't put the
> NTs at all...)
I think some brilliant guys at Geneva University have worked out just the
right thing for you:
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/info/pc/remote-boot/howto.html
At the moment I am in the process of setting up such a computer lab
myself:
17 clients suck their OS (a choice of Debian 2.0 and Win 95, NT ought to
work the same as long as you won't use NTfs...) from two Debian servers
using DHCP and TFTP via a Boot PROM on the 100 Mbit network card.
The servers are RAID-5 Dual P-II`s and export the home directories and
installed software via NFS in Linux mode or SMB in Win95 mode (using
Samba on the server side). The concept works a treat with the Incom
bootprom, we are now testing the option with PXE bootprom.
Check the details out on the webpage quoted, neither the network
configuration nor the XDM query are a problem with this setup...
Regards,
/(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @
( \/ __)_ www.fmf.uni-freiburg.de, Germany
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