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Describe SnowWhite here.

This is a first draft of our development of the Snow White class of guardian server...

For a snow white class intall you need:

Pentium Class computer with - 4 Gig hard drive - 128 Megs RAM - 2 Network Cards

Install will take place on a

Dell "Pizza Box" Optiplex GL 1 533 133 mHz Pentium 10 Gig Hard Drive 64 Megs of ram.

for this system you will not run a GUI and will not need a mouse.

Turn off the GUI buy

Does ubuntu support floppy boot images?

It is identified by the port you plug it into.

The basic idea is that snow white is a bootable image that is downloaded on the "hot" (non ltsp) side.

The special machine gets no X

The special machine gets the snow-white image from the LTSP server

Snow white option can be turned on and off in a configuration file.

The forbidden list is mainted on the server