[tech] More PC's/Thin Terms

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote:

> I have about 5 Thin Terms, They do not power on (due to people plugging in 48v
> AC phone power supplies)
> 
> If anyone wants to come to UCC to tinker with them and try fix them let me
> know.
> 
> Otherwise they get stripped for parts (CPU, Ram etc) and go in the bin.
> 
> I will head down with them some night this week if people are interested.
> These are going first to UCC for the clubroom then if un-repairable to the
> bin.
> 
> They are HP T5720 T5725 and T5730's

I've set up LTSP on martello, the T5730 in UCC has been renamed to 
canevas[1] and now netboots LTSP. For those not familiar, LTSP works by 
taking the username and password then sshing in to the server and running 
things from there. Using martello as the LTSP host isn't idea however:
 - It uses /home, not /away like all the other clubroom machines
 - KDE and GNOME take up a fair bit of space

Possible options include setting up a new server that mounts /away as 
/home, or running apps locally like the old blackboxes did, but better 
done as in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients

Other recent changes: cephalopod has Ubuntu 9.04 on it thanks to [JCF], 
and persephone has OpenSolaris 2009.06 with LDAP and /away - I made it use 
NFSv3 instead of NFSv4 because v4 had a long delay when accessing the 
filesystem after a period of inactivity. I think /away isn't mounting on 
boot, despite the nfs/client service being enabled.

[1] http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=16297
Lipophrys canevae, common name canevas slimfisk - it's a thin/slim client

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