There are further use cases in this I believe. If the network goes down, OTC being able to stand by itself as applications are on the cientside, a thumb drive can be used to still operate the basic apps like browser or openoffice.
Ideally, when the OTC streamed (or copied) to media like flash it should also serve for disaster recovery standalone as well as runnin this on notebooks/netbooks where user can take the computer offline yet still boot and use the apps - afterall isn't what netbooks are meant for- to run. Basic browser and office apps. >From a variety of use cases and most importantly as a fallback model wihin the company flash based taking-offline would really make it's case for OTC I do remember a discussion as such when I was questioning how to setup a fallback server or load balance the OTC - where My primary concern was standalone survivebility - and it's mentioned that OTC team considering a flash based survavibility. Unless the plans changed... To sum I'm in big favor of such feature considering everyone has falshdrives and knoppix like livecds that run on ramdisk provides such offline or to disk installation on fly for persistance of data or be able to boot up the system. Notebooks in office for mobile workers is a great use case parallel to failover support on corporate environment. If I'm not being of ignorant these all boil down to the same method. All the best! Lance Pearce these wrote: > > Hello, In situations where bringing down the openThinclient OS via PXE is > not an option is there a way to intially install the Thinclient OS to disk > via cd/thumb drive instead of using PXE? Situations i might this would be: > > *Serverless sites with slow WAN connections > *other PXE severs in place that can not be swapped out > > Thanks, > > Joyrex > > = > Work Bench > Shop Victoriously with eBay. Find exactly what you want now. > http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=63f580f9fd9ed0dfd41319414bbdccad > > > -- > Powered by Outblaze > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, > CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: > SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org > openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/openThinClient-OS-to-disk--tp22420832p22449322.html Sent from the openthinclient.org users' mailing list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
