Preferred solution for diskless workstation

Hi,

What would you suggest as the preferred solution to make a disk less
workstation to run openSUSE?
I've got a couple of PC's in my house all connected to a server and
they're all running openSUSE.

My initial suggestion would be to buy a 4 or 8GB CF card and mount that
in an CF-SATA adapter and make a more or less standard install on that.
With the most noteable change being no swap partition and mounting /var
and /usr on the server via NFS.

The second solution would be to use PXE boot and pull everything from
the server. This is clearly the cleanest solution, but I don't want to
spend endless hours having to configure the OS for the client PC
manually, which makes me favour the first solution.


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feddersk wrote:

> What would you suggest as the preferred solution to make a disk less
> workstation to run openSUSE?

IMO, it depends on your application.

If all you need is generic access to the web and web-based e-mail, then why
not use a live CD/DVD?  If you need to customize some of the install, then
why not build your own on the opensuse.org build service?

However, if you need a more long-term setup with applications instantly
available as well as configuration, then PXE boot would be your best bet.

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