<div dir="ltr">Ron, if the computers in question are on the same LAN, then it seems to me that what you're describing is a thin client. Thin clients boot their operating systems from an "image" that's served to them from a common server. Customize that boot image to do what you want and you're set.<div>
<br></div><div><<a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">http://www.ltsp.org/</a>></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Jay, and all,<br>
<br>
Thanks for this info.<br>
<br>
I also want to thank Leam H, Chuck P, Boris B, Jim K, and Jim L for
their input as well. Since I'm dealing with a Mint installation, based
on Ubuntu, I'm going to focus on those solutions that relate to Ubuntu
or Mint. I tried the UCK (Ubuntu Customization Kit) mentioned in one
of the other articles mentioned. I couldn't get that to work. Not
sure exactly why. I'll probably look into this remastersys product a
bit more. That might do the trick for me.<br>
<br>
I still haven't gotten my Mint machine doing what I want, mining
digital coins. It turns out that it's a real bear to get the ATI
drivers working properly and get the miner working properly on Linux.
I'm going to keep working on that for a while. Then, once it's
working, I'll look some more at putting the whole thing on a CD.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 4/7/2013 5:40 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
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<div>Ron<br>
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This may be overkill. Remastersys will iso images of one's file system.
Instructions to install the repository are at
<a href="http://www.remastersys.com/ubuntu.html" target="_blank">http://www.remastersys.com/ubuntu.html</a><br>
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<pre>Hi guys,
I've been away from email for a few days, so if anyone sent something directly to me, I'll have to get to you shortly.
I need some linux geekery and wizardry extarordinaire.
Let's say I want to create a custom linux install to do some specific unique task, like monitoring the weather, be a vpn, or maybe mine bitcoins. So, say I boot a Mint 13 cd and either apt-get or copy programs and scripts to get the system working like I want and doing what I want. Actually, I don't understand how you can install anything on a system which booted from a cd, but that's another story. Anyway, assume the system is doing the task that I want. However, the problem is, when I reboot, everything goes away, and I have to configure it all over again. So, how do I change it so that I can save all my changes to another cd, and when I boot that one, the system is capable of doing the special task I wanted.
I'm considering booting from a CD and, maybe, not even having a hard drive. That means I don't have to worry much at all about maintenance, updates, and security, as long as it'd doing the task I want it to do. Don't have to worry about hard drive failures and power failures either. All the work I want the unit to do is network based.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Please keep your replies at the experienced linux beginner (relative to some of you) level.
Sincerely,
Ron
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