RE: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf question

[Egan, Matt B. (Artco)]

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Yeah that would be great~!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Darel Finkbeiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:21 PM
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Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf question

I was just thinking I would need the same thing.  I'm consulting a school here on installing LTSP, and they have 600 workstations spread over several locations.  Most of them have the same hardware in them.

"grouping" profiles like that would be a real bonus.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:28 PM
To: Phil Davey
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Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf question

Phil,

it's not possible in LTSP-3.0, but it will be in 3.1.
I've already got that part working.

Jim McQuillan
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On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Phil Davey wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Don't forget that you can use the MAC address in the lts.conf file.
> >
> > for example:
> >
> >  [00:50:49:00:10:0A]
> >     XSERVER   = auto
> >     RUNLEVEL  = 5
>
> This could be quite handy. I didn't realise it worked like that.
>
> Is it possible to somehow configure groups of machines in lts.conf?
>
> I've got several groups of identical hardware types.
> Say, 40 machines configured one way.
> 30 of something else and so on.
>
> At the moment I'm having to add each machine separately (by hostname) like
> this even though they are the same:
>
> [bay1]
>     SMODULE_01          = uart401
>     SMODULE_02          = sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
>     SMODULE_03          = opl3
>
> [bay2]
>     SMODULE_01          = uart401
>     SMODULE_02          = sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
>     SMODULE_03          = opl3
> .....
> [bay30]
>     SMODULE_01          = uart401
>     SMODULE_02          = sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
>     SMODULE_03          = opl3
>
>
>
> Ideally having something like:
>
> [PC type 1]
>    XSERVER = XF86_SVGA
>
> [PC type 2]
>   XSERVER = auto
>   MODULE_01 = agpgart
> and so on....
>
> and then a way of defining which type each machine is.
> I'm not really sure how this bit of the scripts works.
>
>

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