topic Running X with Gome on diskless nodes in Operating System - Linux

Running X with Gome on diskless nodes

Trent Bukowsky — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 05:06:36 GMT

Hello all,

I would like to know if I can run X on diskless nodes over the network.

I have a 3, 486 machines without Hard disks but with network cards. I have a Celeron machine running RH 7.1 as a server. I would specifically like to run Gnome on the nodes which can boot directly of the server. the nodes will mostly be used for Internet Browsing purposes and also to use the staroffice suite.

If anybody can tell me how to do this, and configure the server and nodes or if there is a HOWTO kindly help me out here. I am yet to become a master of Linux and networks, which is one helluva job.....hahaha.

Thankx people,

Trent

Re: Running X with Gome on diskless nodes

Rafael Serrada Redondo — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:28:06 GMT

hi,

I have found some url's that could interest you :

http://www.comlinux.ufma.br/docs/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html#ss8.1

http://www.linux.com/howto/Diskless-root-NFS-other-HOWTO.html

http://www.linux.com/howto/Diskless-HOWTO-10.html#ss10.1

Hope this helps,
regards

Re: Running X with Gome on diskless nodes

Rafael Serrada Redondo — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:37:21 GMT

and the definitive and most complete(I think) :

http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/lts_ig_v2.4/lts_ig_v2.4.html#toc8

regards

Re: Running X with Gome on diskless nodes

Wodisch — Sun, 03 Feb 2002 20:58:25 GMT

Hello Trent,

if those systems DO have a CD-ROM drive (and can boot from there) another way would be to use a "DemoLinux" like CD-ROM.
"DemoLinux" (SuSE has something like that, but they call it a "live" CD-ROM) is a comlete Linux installed onto a CD-ROM and running in a RAMdisk and the CD-ROM alone - not harddisk needed or touched (even if there is one).
Since they (the DemoLinux team) describe how to build your own one, you could easily create CD-ROMs for those PCs, including your local setup (like IP-parameters).

See the details there:
www.demolinux.org

HTH,
Wodisc