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Richard Brown wrote: > Hi Rob > > On Monday 10 July 2006 07:54, Rob Beard wrote: > >> I've been running a LTSP server (what K12LTSP is based on) on an Athlon >> 700 with 512MB of ram and it runs happily with a couple of clients. I >> think the general rule of thumb is to have as much memory as you can. >> You'll probably find you can get away with a P3-1Ghz or Athlon of the >> same sort of speed. How many clients are you looking at running? >> > I think I'll be running about 3 clients. > >>> Is it also possible to run the network with other clients attached. i.e. >>> Mac or Windows please? >>> >>> >> Yep, you just need to tell the K12LTSP clients to boot from the >> network. It's even possible to use Macs (iMacs, G3's, G4's etc) as >> K12LTSP clients. The K12LTSP server will provide DNS & DHCP services. >> The normal clients will just pickup an IP address from the server if >> they're configured to boot from the hard drive rather than the network. >> > Is it possible to use a raid system please? Or would it be better to use a > good backup system. What I would love to do is to have the thin clients > running of a PIII - I'll stick in a gig of ram. Then also have a mac and > windows box running of the network. It would be useful if all systems could > then backup to a central backup system. Is that possible please? > > Thanks > Yeah I don't see why now. Linux has fairly good software raid included. I'm not sure if the K12LTSP will setup RAID for you, I have only briefly looked at K12LTSP, my main LTSP server is running on Debian 3.1. What I did on my LTSP box was put in a large hard drive and setup Samba shares. I dare say it's possible to setup a script/batch file on the Mac & Windows PC to copy its files to the server over night. I'm guessing if the Mac is running OS X then you can setup a cron job to run a script, and the Windows PC this can be acheved by creating a batch file and running it over night with the AT command. You could also assuming the Mac & Windows PC have shares which the K12LTSP server can mount, copy the files running one script on the K12LTSP server. If you wanted to put that bit extra coolness in it, see if your PC and Macs support Wake On Lan. IIRC there is a Debian package available and I dare say there are Fedora packages too (Fedora is what K12LTSP is based on, or at least was the last time I looked). 3 clients should run fine with 1GB memory. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html