On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Mathias Stearn wrote:
I'd just do a strait install instead of a liveCD. Those machines dont
have the fastest cd drives or enough ram to cache usefull programs, so
it will always be painfully slow.
I agree the CD will be slow. We've now put 256 MB of RAM in the box, so
that's not as much of an issue. If I used a live distro that fit entirely
in the RAM (Damn Small Linux supposedly would) it would probably be ok.
But, yes, an HD install might be best in the long term.
Installing a simple gentoo setup on those machines can be done in about
a day.
...ah yes, the famed ease of Gentoo. Suffice it to say, I'm looking for a
solution that's a bit less fuss than that, if possible.
Much less if you use pre-built packages. Basically all you need
is the base system and X11. Then you could run a full kde or gnome
session off of another box. To make it usable, remember to use ssh -YC
instead of -XC. That will enable RENDER and all sorts of other goodies.
-matt
You're talking about using XDMCP? It's not something I've messed with
much before. I take it essentially everything runs remotely (as opposed
to running X locally with ssh X11 forwarding) and only display
instructions are sent to the desktop. I need to read up on what I have to
do to get XDMCP work, I guess.
Thanks,
Nick
