[K12OSN] how about a live CD or live usb hard drive?
Jim Kronebusch
jim at winonacotter.org
Mon Apr 18 16:04:28 UTC 2005
> Jim, you mentioned 5 clients being the limit on this
> type of machine. That's good info to know. What, in
> your opinion, is the limiting factor in your case?
> RAM? CPU? Would a P4 (rather than a Celeron) make a difference?
I'm no expert here but I would put my money on RAM. 512MB is barely
enough to run its own OS let alone other clients. But it works good for
a few clients or maybe for home use.
The only problem I see with a external USB drive is booting from it, and
maybe speed. You would most likely need to boot from a floppy or live
CD like you specified, but I don't know how you would point it to pull
partitions from the USB drive every time. And USB for data transfers is
slow (especially 1.x). Good luck, I am sure if you can get this figured
out many others will use it, like you not everyone can go buy a demo
server to cart around to schools.
Of course prod your local businesses and people you know. I have been
running into some users tossing out their 1GHZ+ machines lately. Not as
common as finding a 500MHZ machine but they are out there. Especially
home users with WinXP loaded with spyware and viruses. They go buy a
new machine thinking hardware was the problem and give away the old one.
I guess Microsoft does have its advantages :-)
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