On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:09:27PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > | > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the | > | > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on | > | > the server. | > | | > | I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user | > | and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this | > | is to solve the 'customization problem'. | > | > What is the 'customization problem'? /home should be mounted rw | > anyways. All terminals would be using the same /home directory so it | > wouldn't matter which terminal you logged into. | | I was thinking of a internet-cafe like solution for that, but with a | bit permanent storage - that is, the | rebooting-means-reborning-scene.
Oh, I see. You would have many people using the same login, which could cause problems if those people change the config. That is a good idea, then, for that situation. -D
