RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John R Pierce <> scribbled on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:40 AM: > Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Something just occured to me on this this... >> >> Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it >> boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something >> like th

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-03 Thread John R Pierce
Sorin Srbu wrote: Something just occured to me on this this... Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something like that? Has anybody tried (something similar like) this? how much ram?I d

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:05 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >What's wrong with NFS? You can even have

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:17:20PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >The key is mostly sufficient memory so > >that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs > >in I/O cache. > > If the clients had lots of ram (>=2Gb), can I disable the swap file > altogether? Yup! (That'

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The key is mostly sufficient memory so >that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs >in I/O cache. If the clients had lots of ram (>=2Gb), can I disable the swap file altogether? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:47:04PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days > >A quick google found: > > http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs > > Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of > NFS? > Giv

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days >A quick google found: > http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of NFS? Given good hardware, does this make for a production quality setup? Thanks! jlc ___

Re: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Stephen Harris
> 1. Should I just do iSCSI backed diskless setups? Probably doesn't scale well. What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days A quick google found: http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs My first thought: Install a workstation as normal, then tar/untar them onto the NFS serv