[K12OSN] does my client machine have to be linux/windows?

[Andrew]

Your client machine should either bnoot from a bootable network card (50 
us or so and probably not what you have) or from a floppy onto which you 
used "cat" to copy the boot image that matches your client's ethernet 
card. These images are stored on your server, I beleive. Somewhere under 
boot ot bootimages or something like that. Your client machine needs no 
OS ..not even a hard drive to work.

Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:

> Debbie Schiel wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I'm a primary school teacher/web designer in Queensland, Australia, 
>> with average php scripting skills and a mac/windows background.
>>
>> My aim is to switch our school (and maybe one day the entire state!) 
>> to Linux & OSS.
>> But I'm having a slow start:
>>
>> Have recently installed K12LTSP on one machine with two ethernet 
>> cards, one connected to the net and the other to a switch. I have one 
>> other old windows machine connected to the switch (as a trial/demo) 
>> and now I'm stuck. I'm not finding it all as easy as it says on 
>> www.k12ltsp.org ("up in 20 minutes").
>> A linux pro physically at my side would be great but since I haven't 
>> the money to fly anyone over here's 2 simple questions to start with:
>>
>> Q - does my client machine have to be linux/windows?
>>
>> Q - where on the desktop/ redhat 'start' menu do I find rdesktop?
>>
>> Oh, and I only installed the second network card after I installed 
>> K12ltsp onto the server machine - would the easiest thing be to 
>> re-install k12ltsp so that it can configure everything automatically?
>>
>>
>> My school by the way:
>> www.redeemer.qld.edu.au
>> (spot the OSS)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Debbie
>>
>> _______________________________________________________
>
>
>
> G'day, Debbie!
>
> You can do a reinstall, and that certainly does work, but, in my 
> experience, you don't have to.
>
> When you do installed the second NIC, I'm betting that Kudzu (the Red 
> Hat hardware autodetecter) found it and set it up for use as "eth1".  
> Kudzu will load the module (device driver) for the new NIC and will 
> leave your pre-existing NIC ("eth0") alone.  What Kudzu doesn't do is 
> give the NIC an IP address; we have to do that manually.  To do this, 
> just run the "redhat-config-network" program.  It will present you 
> with a screen to do IP address configuration, as well as some other 
> things.
>
> As for rdesktop, I'm not sure if that's in the default install, as I 
> virtually always choose the "Custom" install no matter what OS I'm 
> installing (I'm a geek).  If not, you can easily install it from the 
> CDs.  Just pop in each CD, drill down till you get to the RPMS 
> subdirectory, and look for something starting with "rdesktop".  
> Install that with either the GUI or the command line (rpm -ivh 
> myfiletoinstall.rpm), and you should be good to go.  That said, to 
> actually use rdesktop in real terms, you'll need to either do Start / 
> Run Program, or use the command line, because rdesktop needs the IP 
> address of the Windows server to which you want to talk.
>
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