CITRIX ICA

[Bradley J. Bartram]

Tom - 

A floppy distro may be a little smaller than what you are needing.  The ICA 
from cisco requires 12 mb of space so to load a small image onto a floppy is 
kind of out of the question.

My first recommendation would be to work with red hat as citrix has been 
tested and has packages pre-built for it.  It keeps things simple.  Then you 
can look into one of two options.

First, create a bootable cd which can create a ramdisk and mount your drives 
and whatnot for client access.  This could get pretty tricky as you are 
basically creating a system on cd.

The second option is to suppliment your citrix term server with an nfs server 
or some other form of remote boot server to act in tandem with a very small 
boot floppy (images are available on the redhat cd).  You can then boot as a 
thin client, mount home directories and such and run the ICA.  This option 
has the added benefit of being a little more centrally managed as you simply 
need to update the nfs (or whatever bootserver) and your changes can be 
propagated system wide.

For some decent info download the Icaunix.pdf Unix admin guide for citrix.  
It'll give you the 411 on the nuts and bolts of what you want.

Just my $.02

brad

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 12:03 pm, Tom McKim wrote:
> My Company is thinking of installing a CITRIX Terminal Server.
>
> I want to simplify each client by installing a Linux OS on just a Floppy
> that has Linux and the CITRIX ICA on it.
>
> Has anyone ever done such a thing?
>
> I am a newbie in the LINUX so I have no Idea where to begin.  I did
> download the Floppix Distribution some time ago and was going to look into
> that.
>
>
>
>
> Tom McKim
> mckimt at yahoo.com
> mckimt at epicforchildren.org
>
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