Hello anon permutation, (sorry, but this does not entirely look like a real name, does it?)
> We have some decent diskless workstations(PIII w/ 128 or 256M), and we like > to delegate as much work to them as possible to minimize bandwidth and > server usage. They pretty much just run our intranet Java App. > My question is whether we can have each workstation runs its own copy of the > Display Manager locally? If so, how do I set this up? Ideally, > everything(Intranet Java App, Display Manager, X Server) will all run > locally. The workstations rely on the server only for boot and NFS > functions. Please help. I'd expect this to be outside LTSP specs. Perhaps you just want to install them locally, move the harddisk content to a NFS-share on the server and make the kernel net-booted and root-over-nfs-aware. That's not too hard... But it's not LTSP anymore. Just to line it out: 1/ install linux onto a local hard drive on a client (which would only be used temporarily, so just attach one flying-wires). 2/ Make every setting as you like it, especially get it running completely reliably to exclude several factors in troubleshooting later. 3/ Compile a kernel with NFS, NFS-root, ramdisk, initrd support (That's not really needed, but who knows...), CONFIG_IP_PNP. You probably have PCI network interfaces in your terminals. Compile them into the kernel, *not* as modules. Anyhow, as few modules as possible. 4/ Use that kernel to boot the client locally. Make it get an ipaddress with dhclient (? If the eth0 is not yet configured by the kernel) - For this step, dhcpd must run on the server 5/ On the server export a share, say, /diskless/terminal1/ with rw,no_root_squash for the ip of the terminal (best make them fixed in dhcpd.conf). Copy the entire hard drive to that share (use cp -dpvR or so, read the manpage *please*. Edit /diskless/terminal1/etc/fstab to reflect that change. 6/ Use an etherboot floppy to netboot an NBI image of that kernel, specify the appropriate nfsaddr= and nfsroot= options in dhcpd.conf. It runs out of the box, I hope. 7/ Remove the harddrive (still having the etherboot floppy) and test if it still runs. You know you can go without a floppy if your NICs are flashed with etherboot already or if they are PXE-enabled. IAN (yet) A Linux-"consultant", and this is roughly what I tried long time before. Beware of the bugs. No guarantee. You have been warned. Well, I'd give it a shot. If you need further info, feel free to ask me per private mail (though I'm away helping tearing down a flat in Leipzig this weekend, fun & beer for free :-) Best regards, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
