Yes, this was one of the ideas in my own lab. However, since the
clients have 6Gb+ of disk I thought it was quite a waste of space to let
them install there only NT and reserver a "small" partition to Linux.
When the clients might run Netscape/Gimp/Gnome/Wmaker, I think it's
necessary to have all binaries local (however a server's /usr is mounted
/usr/local). Also, I did not want to break Debian by not letting it touch
/usr.
I think, however, that such a modified boot-floppy as well as more
documentation on how this is down could make a useful debian package :)
Regards
Javi
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:36:01PM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> We have a very simple setup for such an environment. In our CS
> lab, we have about 40 machines with the same Debian installation. The
> servers (manually installed) export /usr to all the clients. We use a
> modified installation floppy to preinstall the clients, download /etc,
> /var, and some other things, and /usr is NFS mounted from the
> servers. If anybody find this interesting, I can give
> details. However, I'll be very interested in discussiong your ideas,
> Javier.
>
> Jesus.
