edubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 24, Issue 15

[David Ally]

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Today's Topics:

   1. Using diskless thin clients with Linux (Gammill, James)
   2. Re: Using diskless thin clients with Linux (Gavin McCullagh)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 12:12:51 -0700
From: "Gammill, James" <jgammill at menifeeusd.org>
Subject: Using diskless thin clients with Linux
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Our school has lots of thin clients that I can use with an Edubuntu
server. They used Windows CE to connect to a Windows server the last
time they were used. 
They have no hard disks. Will they need to be modified to connect to the
Edubuntu server?

If each thin client have a processor, RAM and pxe capable network card, I think they will be able to boot into an Edubuntu server. No OS is required on the thin client, because nothing is locally loaded on the thin client, everything comes from the server. To connect to Edubuntu, you will need to have a means to change the booting processs to LAN in the BIOS and that's all, assuming all other things are in place.

David





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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:12:21 +0100
From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using diskless thin clients with Linux
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Hi,

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Gammill, James wrote:

> Our school has lots of thin clients that I can use with an Edubuntu
> server. They used Windows CE to connect to a Windows server the last
> time they were used. 
> They have no hard disks. Will they need to be modified to connect to the
> Edubuntu server?

It's not clear what you're thin clients actually are.  Without knowing
that, we can't really guarantee anything.  

However, what you should need for an edubuntu thin client is

  - i386 pc hardware
  - 64MB RAM (you might get away with less)
  - Pentium 2 (late P1 will usually work fine)
  - network card that does PXE booting

A hard disk is not required.  What exactly are your thin clients?

Gavin




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