Diskless workstations

[Michael Redinger]

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Hi,

redhat-config-netboot is included in Taroon (it is even mentioned in the
README file).
Any chance this will be added to Severn too?

Michael

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

> 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:
> 
> >  
> >
> >>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.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >-Chuck




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