Basics

Setup dhcpd was already done.  The object of this exercise is to migrate all existing thin clients currently recieving IPs and boot images from the existing LTSP server to a W2K3 DHCP and TFTP server facilitating the decommissioning of the LTSP server. This needs to be done incrementally so as to limit any unexpected side effects of the migration thus maintaining maximum availability to users. In my test case ao my office I am actually using 3 dhcp servers, Linux dhcpd (FC4), dhcp service on W2K3 and dhcp through my D-Link router. By defining an IP range on each server and employing reservations based on MAC I hope to avoid any conflict.

1. • Use 'Disk Druid' to create seperate partitions for /var and /home. This helps reduce vulnerability from log files or users filling up the / directory
   • Basic Installation has only minimal packages, Web, Mail and Office will be installed from latest stable versions from vendor sites.

2. yum update

   This will bring the box up to date with all the latest packages for this distrobution. Expect this to takke some time.

Basic FC4 Virtual Machine with Free NX Server

Take a 'Basic FC4 Golden Master' as created above and install the Free NX Server packages.   Some usefull links for this:

• Free NX home page.
• Free NX howto.
• Free NX mailing list.
• Free NX on Fedora howto.
• NoMachine Knowledge Base.

The following commands were straight from the above Fedora howto and worked without modification:

Setup Preceedure for FC4 with Web, Mail, Office and remote access.