Diskless workstations

[Daniel J Walsh]

I have been working on a package called redhat-config-netboot that 
allows you to setup diskless environments
using NFS, as well as network installations.  It is based somewhat off 
of LTSB.  It is basically a series of scripts and python code that sets 
up a PXE boot environment and an diskless NFS partition.  

ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/netboot

Comments welcome.

Dan

Chuck Wolber wrote:

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>>No we do everything via NFS at the moment. Using a big ramdisk would cut
>>into why all the machines have so much memory and CPU's. Basically the
>>idea is that all CPU cycles are local and all data is foreign. The
>>approach to this seems to follow either SGI or Sun ways of doing
>>diskless clients. I like the Sun way of doing it (with each client
>>getting its own tree) versus the SGI where most is common with the
>>server and clients need a rebuild if server code changes.
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>Can a user move to another workstation and resume their session? I've seen 
>this done with RFID tags that automatically detach your session if you 
>move away from the terminal and re-attach you when you move closer.
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>-Chuck
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