LTSP anyone?

I have had this idea for a long long time. Probably since LTSP was first launched. Now probably is the time when I will implement it in my school labs.
First, I needed cheap hardware. REAL cheap hardware. So I found out that I get an AMD Sempron processor with an ASUS M2N-MX SE motherboard with 512MB RAM and 80GB SATA HDD for like 10K. Which is somewhat affordable.
Next, of course I spent time searching for whether the on-board LAN adapter supported booting from the network. Sadly, there was no such documentation. Well, I went ahead and bought one machine anyway, just to check this out. Well, the answer is YES, the LAN adapter on the motherboard (NVIDIA® nForce™ 430 MCP) DOES support booting from LAN, via PXE. You have to go to the BIOS and go to the SouthBridge peripheral settings, where you can change the settings. You then have to mention in the boot order that you want to boot from LAN first. It works!
There was, and is, a problem with the ACPI settings of the BIOS. I have to upgrade the BIOS, or turn off ACPI, to allow Linux to load. The kernel panics if ACPI is enabled.
Well, more on LTSP will come as I go ahead and install a client and server...