Inquiry from the New Guy

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Hello-
I'm running SuSE on an IBM 300XL PII 266 4 GBHD. I added a 20 GBHD which
helps. The video card and or the etc/rc.config may require a bit of tweeking
to get proper display.

c keogh
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>From: "Charles H. Root, III" <chazroot at accountsolutionsgroup.com>
>To: <nflug at nflug.org>
>Subject: Inquiry from the New Guy
>Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2003, 2:36 PM
>

>Greetings All:
>
>I'm looking for some pointers regarding a Linux workstation rollout
>project I am working on. Here's the scoop:
>
>ASG has over 600 existing PC's running MS DOS 6.2, NIC & mouse drivers
>and the ICA Client for DOS. You power them up, autoexec.bat launches the
>ICA Client and you are presented with a Windows login screen. Simple
>configuration and a perfect end user experience for our environment. Over
>90% of our staff gets their desktop environment from a Citrix server farm.
>
>However, I have another 100 or so used workstations we've purchased arriving
>soon. They are IBM 300GL PII 350's, 64 MB RAM, NIC and 4GB HDD. And (of
>course)
>no OS. Obviously, I don't want to spend over $20,000 in WinXP licenses just
>to
>dumb them down to MS-DOS.
>
>What I wish to accomplish is to build a Linux based PC that boots directly
>to
>X Windows and the ICA client (bypassing the Linux login) and present the end
>user with a Windows login prompt from our Citrix server farm, just like our
>existing DOS workstations.
>
>I've gotten some recommendations from Chad Robinson (A Linux Journal
>magazine
>contributing writer), an RHCE from UB and a few folks on the web. The flavor
>of
>these recommendations is:
>
>* Do a minimal RedHat 8 install.
>
>* Remove the getty statements in /etc/inittab to bypass the Linux login
>prompt.
>
>* Run the ICA Client as a shell in either run level 4 (Kiosk mode) or
>  run level 5 (X Windows).
>
>After I get a stable workstation config on one PC, the next step is to do
>network installs on the remaining units. They don't have CD-ROM drives.
>
>I've got management buy-in so I'm good there. I've already migrated our DNS,
>FTP and web server over to RedHat.
>
>Comments, tips, concerns? I'm admittedly a little inexperienced in a
>customized
>rollout like this. I'd love to hear your thoughts and see if anyone else
>locally
>is doing this sort of thing.
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Charles H. Root, III
>MIS Network Manager
>
>Account Solutions Group
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