Internet Cafe System

[deathmas]

I have read all your posts and found them very interesting.

I was wondering tho if you might know more about the knoppix-terminalservers procedures in booting it's clients so that I maybe able to get certian computers to boot a different kernel than the default one.

I know that LTSP itself can be done by editing the dhcpd.conf but alas with knoppix it loads the etherboot.nbi file and then the kernel how can I work around this to change the kernel by computer nic cards mac address.

Like I said I know that you can do this with LTSP but how under knoppix

[binary1230]

thought id share some of the fun i've had

for a graphics class im in here, we needed a linux based setup in the business school and they wouldnt let us do a linux dual boot hd install, so i setup a knoppix terminal server kind of setup off a main box i brought into the lab

so like this:
1 main server (junky box, but it works)
30 clients running winxp (originally that is)

started off with knoppix v3.3 hd install and after playing around a bit i figured that I had to modify some stuff. basically I wanted to customize the base system being served up to the clients to be my own version of knoppix. so what I did was take the cloop knoppix image (700mb KNOPPIX file on the cdrom) and extract it into a dir on the server.

the initrd image has a script called linuxrc that is run on each client as it boots. I modified this so that instead of mounting the nfs exported cloop image, it mounts the base filesystem from /cdrom on the server. this required some tweaking of symlinks and such, but works nicely.

the nice thing is if i want to install any new software on the clients, all i have to do is log in to the server, chroot into /cdrom, and apt-get install or whatever. its nice.

biggest lesson: stuff that uses /dev does NOT like symlinks (at least the nvidia binary module didnt work with X through symlinks)

anyway its definately possible and in fact its not really all that hard. actually i just realized that i may have made it overly complicated because i was using knoppix v3.2 on the server to serve up version 3.3

as for performance, everything takes a bit longer to start with more than 1 client (obviously) but that could also be because my server box is just an old client box, nothing special or fast about it. once everything is booted the system is very fast. as for actual benchmarks, i dont really have any right now

fun

hm does anyone know if updated hd-installed terminal server scripts will be part of the next knoppix? if not we should definately get some in there. the ones i modified are more of a quick hack, but id be willing to help out with it.

-Dom

[gromeo]

Is there any ready solution that I could use - I mean I need just a solution for internet cafe's. ??????????????

[gromeo]

Is there any ready solution that I could use - I mean I need just a solution for internet cafe's. ??????????????