School Project; please read

[Brian Fahrlander]

NoOp wrote:

[To all that replied, btw]

> I would very much recommend that you allow *at least* 10G. 5G is minimal
> - my test server has 8G drives and I'm constantly running out of space
> just from odds & ends test programs. Further, I had less than 1G left on
> the drive and found that I couldn't do the Gutsy upgrade without freeing
> up about 1.9G first.

     Yeah, and I'm sensitive to that; I don't expect to keep their own 
data on each PC; that kinda holds the data hostage until the other guy 
on the same PC gets off, and let's them reboot.

> Unless you are using Knoppix (or have some very high powered machines
> with tons of ram) I'd recommend staying away from Live CD's. There is
> nothing more embarrassing than trying to bring up an Ubuntu Live CD on
> an old machine with only 256M or even 512M in front of a class.

     Well, I'm leaning towards LTSP. If I can get a boot-disk to fire 
up, find the 'server' and load the kernel, etc, we'll get both the speed 
and the low-cost of change to the infrastructure, as well as allowing 
any user to use ANY PC they can find- without hurting the PC in the process.

     I ran about 12-14 clients off an old P2, in the wayback...I loved 
having no disks in there and a network card that would boot everything 
straight away, but  booting from a CD would be fine, and all the 
infrastructure should be there....I mean, doesn't everyone have a box 
that Win98 killed?

     :>

     (No, I'm gonna try to get the fastest server I can, just kidding)


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