[TLUG] (remote) install fest

[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:58:28PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > Incorrect.  PXE is about getting a kernel loaded into memory, the same
> > job and purpose as etherboot, netboot or romamatic.  PXE facilitates
> > LTSP it definitely does not obsolete it.
> 
> Here we go again...  After you boot and mount NFS root, you're looking
> at the root tree that used to be local harddisk (except now it's
> remote).  You tell me why LTSP is necessary.

Perhaps the workstations are decrepit and/or have too little
memory to run apps and X at an appropriate speed.  LTSP creates
thin clients.  Mounting your root filesystem over NFS creates a
thick client, which runns all applications locally only saves you
the cost of remote administration and hard disks.

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