[TLUG] (remote) install fest

[Taavi Burns]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:34:33AM -0500, William Park wrote:
> Ah, I see where's the confusion.  Once you mount NFS root, you have a
> "normal" root tree.  So, this is no different from your fully loaded
> computer.  How do you get the remote server to open XDM login prompt on
> your screen.  Essentially, you do 'X -query server', right?

Yup!

> With X-terminal, we automate this by modifying /etc/inittab.  In
> Slackware, run level 4 is XDM mode and it will run /etc/rc.d/rc.4.  You
> can edit that, or assign unused run level 5 for X-terminal purpose.  You
> can also trim NFS root tree, because once X is up, everything will be
> run on the server.

This is where Fraser's comment comes in.  Yes, we can do the XDM bits
in /etc/inittab on the mounted NFS filesystem and all...

But why not use the LTSP packages for client kernel/BOOTP server/NFS
configuration/server X configuration/maybe some specialised admin
tools?  That's all LTSP is: diskless NFS-rooted X terminals plus
server in a pretty set of packages.

:)

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