Hi Gopinath,
Thank you for the reply,
All the client machines have 1GB Ram and 80GB of hard disk so I don't think its efficient to run think client setup on the machines But thank any way
Cheers Harry
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Harry Sukumar wrote:
I was wondering if you can help me little bit....
I am trying to help (voluntary service) a country side school (Aboriginal community) in Northern Queensland Australia setup lab infrastructure, it's a very remote school and they don't have enough funds to go commercial
The school has only till grade 6
They have 25 machines that was bought out of the government grant
but
none of the machines come with windows
I was asked by the school president to setup lab infrastructure currently they have Internet (Dynamic) with only two machines
connected
I have asked them to change the plan to Static IP address which I presume will be done some time this week
I have decided to go Linux on all the machines including the server
Could some one please cast some light on how I can carry on with
this
project, I am not sure where to start and I am fairly new to Linux
and
system administration world
Currently what's in my mind is to setup fedora on all desktop and CentOS5 as my server with following services configured
If you have one machine that could reasonably act as a server, you
could
load k12ltsp (a CentOS based distribution that adds the ability to network-boot thin clients and some educational programs) on it and be done. In any case you might find the information here useful: http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page along with their mail
list.
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2008/6/11, Harry Sukumar hsukumar@bond.edu.au:
Hi Gopinath,
Thank you for the reply,
All the client machines have 1GB Ram and 80GB of hard disk so I don't think its efficient to run think client setup on the machines But thank any way
Cheers
Harry
It is efficient in terms of spared free time. Go with http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page or reinvent the wheel.
Cheers, Alex.
Alexander Georgiev wrote:
2008/6/11, Harry Sukumar hsukumar@bond.edu.au:
Hi Gopinath,
Thank you for the reply,
All the client machines have 1GB Ram and 80GB of hard disk so I don't think its efficient to run think client setup on the machines But thank any way
Cheers
Harry
It is efficient in terms of spared free time. Go with http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page or reinvent the wheel.
Yes the big win with thin clients is that one install is all you need for the 25 seats and there's not much you can do from the terminals to break it. However, you would need something like a dual xeon server with 4 gigs of RAM to act as the server. If you have to go with standalone workstations, you'll probably want some fast image-based cloning method to install and maintain them. Clonezilla is pretty good for that: http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/.