[Charlug] Single Serve (with OS) and multiple clients (each with different environment)

[Oleg Kio]

My guess is that David is talking about thin clients running from a single
server that's holding an OS image. I didn't reply because I don't know that
much about it myself, but my understanding is that all of your thin clients
should be exactly the same or you will need to have a separate OS image for
each thin client that has different hardware.

Oleg Kio
oleg at Type-A-Consulting.com


On 7/6/07, Jason Edgecombe <jason at rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
>
> David Simmons wrote:
> > Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for the following setup:
> >
> > Machines all networked.....single 'server' with main copy of
> > OS...multiple client computers.
> >
> > Issue:  Have multiple machines that when I do a system update/change
> > (like moving from LinuxMint from 2.2 to 3.0) suggests a full reinstall.
> >
> > While I know I could have /home on a different partition - I still
> > have to replicate on each machine involved?!  Did a little searching
> > about PXE - but what I found was circa 1999....there's gotta be newer
> > stuff?
> >
> > Only recent thing I found was http://drbl.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Does anyone locally have such a setup?
> > Can each 'client' have a different config?  Where is that stored if no
> > local hardware?  I guess that could be done with client sign-in, could
> > I have different setups (with auto-login) based on MAC address?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance - dave
> I'm confused about what you're asking.
>
> Are you wanting automated installs? automated upgrades? home directories
> mounted from a central server? centralized host configuration management
> from the server?
>
> Jason
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