[Leaplist] Single Serve (with OS) and multiple clients (each with different environment)

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

Why would there be newer stuff if it works fine the way it is? I use PXE
myself for one diskless box (not quite what I think you're going after,
but probably a bit more in-depth).
-- 
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On Thu, July 5, 2007 6:55 pm, David Simmons wrote:
>
>
> Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for the following setup:
>
>
>  Machines all networked.....single 'server' with main copy of
> OS...multiple client computers.
>
>  Issue:  Have multiple
> machines that when I do a system update/change (like moving from LinuxMint
> from 2.2 to 3.0) suggests a full reinstall.
>
>  While I know I
> could have /home on a different partition - I still have to replicate on
> each machine involved?!  Did a little searching about PXE - but what
> I found was circa 1999....there's gotta be newer stuff?
>
>  Only
> recent thing I found was http://drbl.sourceforge.net/
>
>  Does
> anyone locally have such a setup?
>  Can each 'client' have a different
> config?  Where is that stored if no local hardware?  I guess
> that could be done with client sign-in, could I have different setups
> (with auto-login) based on MAC address?
>
>
>  Thanks in
> advance - dave
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