HELP NEEDED SATURDAY: Installing Terminal Server

[Warren Togami]

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To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: HELP NEEDED SATURDAY: Installing Terminal Server


> > Charles, is this the method you were thinking of?
>
> No.
>
> I was thinking about using a Debian rescue disk to:
>
> 1. Boot up with network+NFS
> 2. automagically run install script, get IP Address from DHCP
> 3. dd the RedHat hardrive image from the NFS Server to /dev/hda

I'm leaning more towards automating fdisk and "mke2fs -j /dev/hdaX".  This
would be necessary, especially in the future when we wont have uniform
hardware.  Even a slightly different hard drive size would complicate the dd
method.

> 4. once finished, write a file to the NFS Server containing the IP Address
and Ethernet ID and date

Step four may not be entirely needed, because the XTerminals toolkit takes
care of this in for another reason. Maybe we could integrate ours into their
system... although I'm still debating whether I should use the XTerminals
toolkit or LTSP.

Here are links to the two projects...
http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/xterminals/
http://www.ltsp.org/index.php