Re: adminning mult boxen
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote:
>
> | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and
> | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered
> | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the
> | > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on
> | > the server.
> |
> | I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user
> | and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this
> | is to solve the 'customization problem'.
>
> What is the 'customization problem'? /home should be mounted rw
> anyways. All terminals would be using the same /home directory so it
> wouldn't matter which terminal you logged into.
I was thinking of a internet-cafe like solution for that, but with a bit
permanent
storage - that is, the rebooting-means-reborning-scene.
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> -D
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