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

[Kyle Gonzales]

Sounds to me that you are looking for something similar to the Stateless
Linux work being done in Fedora & RHEL.

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:55 -0400, 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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Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com>