LTSP and true thin-clients?

[Rinnt]

Hi,

I have recently started to research using LTSP on our company network in place of Windows NT TSE 4.0 and Citrix. We already have some true thin-clients in place. In fact they make up the majority. By "true thin clients" I mean the actual hardware devcies that have no floppy, cdrom, or hard drives and rely on the server for such functions (i.e. WYSE WinTerms). After reading the LTSP instructions and getting to a certain point, I realized that this seems to be geared toward old PCs that boot with a floppy to run the client. My questions are these:

Can true thin clients work with LTSP?

If so, do they require any special configuration?


Thanks in advance for any replies!

 

[princeshri]

Hi,

I believe that it is possible to boot without floppy's - you might want to look up network boot using BOOTP / DHCP and such.

Your NIC's will have to support a flash rom though I think, check out

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html

esp section 8 onwards

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Remote-Boot.html

may also have some details of interest.


HTH,



Shri