HELP NEEDED SATURDAY: Installing Terminal Server

epsas at inflicted.net epsas at inflicted.net
Thu Nov 1 22:30:36 PST 2001


> > 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.

Good plan, forward thinking.
What does mke2fs -j do?


> 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.

I am still trying to get my head around the LTSP - are these going to be diskless clients?



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