D-I and Kickstart

Mike Douglas mike.douglas at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 01:55:47 CST 2005


LTSP would be a good choice, but our fat-clients have fairly good specs
and we currently lack a server fast enough to run a large lab with
adequate speed.

On Wed, 2005-16-03 at 08:46 +0100, Ivan Krstic wrote:
> Mike Douglas wrote:
> > My school is currently investigating rolling out a Ubuntu lab for the
> > students using a combination of getupdates and Kickstart. I've followed
> > the hoary-changes list and noticed that Kickstart support was been
> > recently added to Hoary. Is there any where that I can get some
> > documentation/examples relating to this? 
> 
> If you haven't, be sure to also consider LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org).
> It's a perennial favorite for schools, which often have less than
> satisfactory hardware, and need centralized user and software
> management. Norway has about 15 thousand students using LTSP labs.
> 
> LTSP Ubuntu Howto: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LTSPHowTo
> 
> Ivan.
> 




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