Re: [ilugd] Planning a maiden Linux setup

2005-09-29 Thread Gaurav Mishra
Hi anand, I am planning to setup a large, maiden linux desktop installation in a Windows Centric Environment. Hard realities at ground (1) 99% users will be first timers, many may not have heard of it before!! (2) Lack of trained support staff, learn by burning your hands, looks like to

Re: [ilugd] Planning a maiden Linux setup

2005-09-29 Thread Shiv
hi, you might want to check out the FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) project for large unattended installs. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai. Its mainly for Debian Solaris but then you could adapt it to any distro --- Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi anand, I am planning

[ilugd] Planning a maiden Linux setup

2005-09-28 Thread anandsha
This issue has been discussed many a times at various fora, but would like to refresh just before attempting one. I am planning to setup a large, maiden linux desktop installation in a Windows Centric Environment. Hard realities at ground (1) 99% users will be first timers, many may not have

Re: [ilugd] Planning a maiden Linux setup

2005-09-28 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. With my prior experience, tend to prefer FC. But would like to use the updated un-official FC4 distro. CentOS may be better as it has updates and patches in sync with RHEL. And you know my penchant of saying terminal services ;-)

Re: [ilugd] Planning a maiden Linux setup

2005-09-28 Thread hassath
Hi Anand, Don't have any technical suggestions, but there seem to be some similarities in the situation that you describe, and what we have in our office. We are an NGO. When we first started almost three years ago, it was decided to have a FLOSS network- and no proprietary software. On Thu,

Re: [ilugd] Planning a maiden Linux setup

2005-09-28 Thread hassath
Sorry, forgot to mention: We run LTSP 3.X series on Red Hat 9. The norm is that disk-less workstations boot off the network server. We have a separate machine which acts as our internet gateway and mail server. It might help to understand our setup better.. Hassath