[luau] New school LTSP project

[Warren Togami]

MessageWe can give you machines usable as thin clients, but you would need
to buy several things yourself.

1. Server - roughly $800
Minimal requirements - Single Athlon with 512MB ECC RAM in order to handle 5
LTSP stations.  Make sure the motherboard has large upgradability with RAM
so you can easily accomodate additional thin clients in the future.  Let me
know and I will price you out a recommended system.  I would like to build
and configure your server.
2. Bootable Network Cards
Something like 3Com 3c905-txm or any other card with onboard PXE.  Also
Linksys LNE100TX with etherboot bootrom chip works.  I heard there's similar
cards from SMC and DLink that are also tftp bootable.  We are getting a pack
of 50 3c905-txm cards for St. John and Mid-Pac.  I may be able to sell you a
few of those cards.
3. Switches, cat5 cabling, etc.
4. I will require all schools receiving my help to subscribe to RHN services
for their servers.  This is $60/year ($5 per month).  Trust me, $5 a month
is worth your time.  They e-mail you when new package updates are available.
RHN service makes updating and installing new packages very quick and easy.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Stockton, Wade
To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: [luau] New school LTSP project


Call for Help.
Windward Nazarene Academy in Kaneohe is in need of a 4 or 5 station ltsp
lab. Also as an inticement for teachers to get newer machines I would like
to set up a couple of non terminal server workstations. I am the technology
coordinator (volunteer) for this school so I will be the contact. The
principal is all for it. I am not a novice Linux user but far from a
proficient Linux sysadmin.

Thanks in advance,
Wade Stockton