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Re: Multiple Clients




Dvir,

Please take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project
at http://www.ltsp.org

It's a project I'm working on to handle diskless booting, after
the bootrom is done with it's job.  We have a site with 70 workstations,
all mounting the same root filesystem in read-only mode.

It may be just what you need.

Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org

Dvir Oren wrote:
 
> 2.  The other thing I can't seem to configure is the need to create a
> separate file system for each system that has to boot.  Suppose I
> want to have 10 diskless computers, why do I need to duplicate 10
> file systems on the server?  I suppose I could hard link most of the
> file system, and only create a new /var, /tmp and /proc perhaps
> (still there is a problem with /etc/mtab) for each client.  A better
> solution would be if I could make a single file system for all the
> computers, and let each computer have a ramdisk with only certain
> directories (/var, etc.).  Is there a way to do this?
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