[K12OSN] almost there...

[Kevin Boone]

I am working with at least a 1) 24 port 100base Alcatel switch...2) 2- 9 GB 
SCSI hard drives, everything was setup on one HD...3) RAM not even close

!!!!!
I need to upgrade RAM and create a /home directory on my second HD.


>From: Paul Nelson <pnelson at riverdale.k12.or.us>
>Reply-To: k12osn at redhat.com
>To: k12osn <k12osn at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] almost there...
>Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:46:28 -0800
>
>There are three bottlenecks:
>
>1) Bandwidth - Tell us about the network setup. For 23 machines you
>should have at least a 24 port, 100base switch. Better would be a 24
>port, 100base switch with a gig uplink to a gig card on the server.
>
>2) Hard drive - With more than 10 clients you'll need a scsi hard drive
>for /home.
>
>3) RAM - you'll want 500mb for the server OS plus 50mb each for clients.
>For 23 machines you'd need 1.5+gigs of ram. More would be better.
>
>So to get any help you'll have to tell us what you have in terms of 1,
>2, 3, and I bet we'll find your problem.
>
>;-)
>
>On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:48, Kevin Boone wrote:
> > gave my lab a test run with the k12LTSP server 4.0.
> >
> > I am running 23 Dell optiplex 270s with flat panel monitors.  All was 
>fine
> > with the machines booting to the server until my 20 plus students 
>started to
> > log in....disaster.   The first 5 or so machines logged in well but as 
>the
> > other machines logged in the previous machines rebooted and started the 
>PXE
> > boot again.  I never achieved any log ins.  direction please..
> >
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