[ale] building a Linux lowend web browsing station

[Geoffrey]

I've noted the various other responses, but I think you'll have a 
problem with a straight install of any major distro except Slackware. 
The issue will be the amount of memory.  I'm pretty sure Mandrake, SuSE 
and Red Hat require 64 mb for an install of their latest releases.

One solution to this issue is to do the install with more memory, 
whether you borrow it from another machine or have a couple of 'install' 
memory sticks on hand.

With that many systems, you should certainly look into some variation of 
automated install.  Further, I'd contact each distro and ask them what 
they'll do to assist in order for them to get there distro installed on 
500+ machines.

Good luck.

Watson F. McKeel wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I do volunteer work for a local nonprofit, and we have a BIG task
> that has been set before us. We are going to build 500-700 computers
> that will serve as web browsing stations. We want to use Linux to do
> it because it is so configurable. The hardware involved: many
> different makes and models Pentium 90 to 133MHz 32 MB RAM 500-800MB
> HD sometimes NICs, sometimes modems printer
> 
> We don't want these boxes to do anything other than surf the web and
> print. My questions: What distributions should we look at to get
> started on this? Are there any out there that pride themselves on
> their ability to run on lowend systems? Also, I do not relish
> installing anything 500-700 times, even if it is Linux. Any tips on
> how to do mass installs (like a generic disk image of some kind, or
> maybe network installs)?
> 
> 
> Any thoughts at all are greatly appreciated,
> 
> Watson McKeel    -volunteer at Free Bytes
> 

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