Hello to all linuxites
My college was thinking of using the knoppix cd based version for their OS practicals thus eliminating need of installing linux on each machine.
the students need mostly command line for practicals.
It needs to be on a network while on knoppix as it's in case when it's on windows.
Configuring the card everytime a person boots is a mess I was wondering if that could be done while booting itself ( either by assignin a static ip per cd or giving it a dhcp server name in the script) we could run a dhcp server from a linux.
A samba would be required to store data to a windows machine which will act like a server or can I use a machine that's running only rh8 with a ftp deamon?
IF anyone has better method of doing this please tell me, that would be great
all comps are P4 with 845 M/b and we are running one comp on rh8
Thank you Deepak
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-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of Netbaba Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:24 AM To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Knoppix customization and remastering
Configuring the card everytime a person boots is a mess I was wondering if that could be done while booting itself ( either by assignin a static ip per cd or giving it a dhcp server name in the script) we could run a dhcp server from a linux.
you can install linux using ehterboot. in this, the main image remains on the server (any one machine will have linux installed on it and will act as server). each client will boot either from an etherboot floppy or nic boot rom image (this has option to boot via network or local disk - windows). the clients take their filesystm from server via nfs and dhcp/tftp. you can get more info at etherboot.sourceforge.net or www.ltsp.org. there are howtos also available for the same. we had implemented this on our college network and user find no difference between the local linux and remote linux. try this. you can even boot into x windows if u wish to. only time u need to spend is to install linux on server and on one client. once a client is setup, addition of rest of them is a matter of seconds.
A samba would be required to store data to a windows machine which will act like a server or can I use a machine that's running only rh8 with a ftp deamon?
you can use anything on this box, its completely transparent.
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