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1. Re: PXE/nfsroot for active servers (Matt Savigear)


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Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 09:33:44 +0100
From: Matt Savigear <mcs_lug@savigear.com>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] PXE/nfsroot for active servers
Message-ID: <53771EE8.8090204@savigear.com>
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On 14/05/14 10:38, bblug@gascoigne19.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
> Depending on what you're trying to achieve in the long-run, you may have
> some success with the system I use with my scouts when we run cyber cafes
> etc in the field...

What I actually want is a full server installation I can spin up on any
machine in a few minutes in case the main hardware dies, which it
occasionally does. It also takes the weak link (the SSD) out of the
setup and replaces it with a backed-up RAID.

> Check out LTSP (the Linux Terminal Server Project), it's debian based and
> once you get the hang of handling the lts.conf file it's really very
> powerful!

Thanks, I'll take a peek at that, although I'm also experimenting with
doing away with the server entirely and hosting all my services on my
surprisingly sophisticated Synology NAS boxes.

Cheers,

Matt.



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