[RHCE] Re: First meeting

[Scott Stancil]

Thanks folks for stepping up with a solution.

Rock, do you have the hardware that Sinner and Jason have recommended? 
Check out ltsp.org for more information about what they are proposing.

Lisa, do you want to chair the meeting?

Is Wednesday, February 5th a good day meet?  After that are Wednesdays
good for the majority?

Scott

> the server needs to have a moderately fast cpu and, for ten
> workstations, i'd  say 512mb ram minimum.  and two nics, one for the
> main lan and one for the  thin clients.  for the workstations, it helps
> if they all have the same video  cards and nics, but most popular cards
> are supported (not all, however).  and  we'll need a seperate hub/switch
> for the workstations since they run on a  seperate subnet isolated from
> the mail lan.  i may have a spare cisco 24-port  switch that i can spare
> for a little while.  and i can possibly loan out one  of my servers if
> necessary.  poor excuse for an ascii diagram:
>
> |-------------------------------|
> |			eth0  |----->LAN, dhcp client (10.0.0.x)
> |  LTSP server		|
> |			eth1	|-----> thin client hub, dhcp server, (192.168.0.254)
> |-------------------------------|
>
> rock, can you post the specs for the server and workstations?
>
> jason
>
> On Thursday 23 January 2003 00:31, Scott Stancil wrote:
>> Excellent!  I have really wanted an excuse to set LTSP, but just
>> didn't see a need until you mentioned it.  Do you think you could make
>> the first meeting?  I will try to read up on LTSP again before the
>> meeting so that I may be useful; although, we will probably need to
>> see what he has.  Would we need an inventory of the
>> hardware--specifics to make sure it is supported?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> > i'll probably attend a few meetings if possible (the ones in raleigh
>> anyway).   and sure, i'll help set up the ltsp server.  actually,
>> setting it up is a  good exercise, it involves nfs, dhcp, tftp,
>> remote X sessions, rpms,  networking, and lots of little config
>> files.  it's not directly part of the  rhce exam, but learning all
>> of the little tools and applying them in various  combinations is
>> what *nix is all about.
>> >
>> > jason
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 22:36, Scott Stancil wrote:
>> >> I assume this is not part of the RHCE.  So does this mean you will
>> volunteer to setup or at least drive the setup of LTSP at his shop?
>> >>
>> >> Scott
>> >>
>> >> > two words: thin client.  set up ONE server, install LTSP, and
>> boot
>> >>
>> >> the workstations from an etherboot floppy.  never touch the local
>> hard disks.
>> >>
>> >> > jason
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 19:59, Scott Stancil wrote:
>> >> >> The hump day tends to be a bad day, Rock, a