Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] LTSP
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Floppy I wish I could get that option to work, It goes don't want to play 8-(
John
Hmm. I know what you mean (I think). I had trouble - the clients kept saying 'Non-system boot disk' or would get stuck very early on. Two things: 1) I reverted to new disks - much better. 2) I think the floppy drive in my server wasn't A1, so I used another machine. It kept making useless disks. I used another machine - sorted. The command is: cat /image_to_use > /dev/fd0 Some sites left out the ">", but I put it in, as recommended by other sites. HTH -- Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
hi all..... OckerHill LTSP case study at:- http://people.redhat.com/mherbert --------------------------------- key issues:- - 386/486 are ok in theory, but usually in practice defeated by the Graphics cards. Go for P75 minimum - 16Mb RAM is ok, but StarOffice, GIMP and window movement can be 'blocky'. 32Mb no problem - 3c509 network cards (10Mb) are great, can supply them, with bootroms via Sandwell LEA - LTSP servers _do_ need tuning....file max in particular - look to use the latest K12LTSP release (currently Gamma) or the recent LTS_3.0 release (RPM's). Both good - LTSP solutions can be provided commercially and as a _managed service_ but not in the Becta sense by a number of companies, names and addresses supplied off list is it worth organising another workshop in Sandwell ? try to make it free, bring you own servers and clients and see what we can get working? Malcolm On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:51, Matt Johnson wrote:
--- SILCOATSIT@aol.com wrote:
Floppy I wish I could get that option to work, It goes don't want to play 8-(
John
Hmm. I know what you mean (I think). I had trouble - the clients kept saying 'Non-system boot disk' or would get stuck very early on. Two things:
1) I reverted to new disks - much better.
2) I think the floppy drive in my server wasn't A1, so I used another machine. It kept making useless disks. I used another machine - sorted.
The command is:
cat /image_to_use > /dev/fd0
Some sites left out the ">", but I put it in, as recommended by other sites.
HTH
-- Matt
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hi all.....
OckerHill LTSP case study at:-
http://people.redhat.com/mherbert
--------------------------------- key issues:- - 386/486 are ok in theory, but usually in practice defeated by the Graphics cards. Go for P75 minimum
Some of the early pentium machines appear fussy about video cards. Possibly an issue of card not being backwards compatable to the older PCI spec.
- 16Mb RAM is ok, but StarOffice, GIMP and window movement can be 'blocky'. 32Mb no problem - 3c509 network cards (10Mb) are great, can supply them, with bootroms via Sandwell LEA
I have piles of generic RTL8139 cards, work fine with the etherboot code. But no obvious supplier of ROMS. Other than to see if a DIY option works. Also have quite a few D-Link cards, via-rhine chipset, though a little unusual in using 32 rather than 28 pin ROMS.
- LTSP servers _do_ need tuning....file max in particular
RAM can be a critical issue. More so than CPU.
- look to use the latest K12LTSP release (currently Gamma) or the recent LTS_3.0 release (RPM's). Both good - LTSP solutions can be provided commercially and as a _managed service_ but not in the Becta sense by a number of companies, names and addresses supplied off list
The Becta list looks highly political, also the spec looks "cooked" to the offerings of certain suppliers. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:58, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
is it worth organising another workshop in Sandwell ? try to make it free, bring you own servers and clients and see what we can get working?
Yes, very much so! I went to the first one last year and found it was great. I've got 5 or 6 redundant boxes around 200 Mhz in a dry but unheated storeroom. Once the weather warms up a bit again I'm going to get stuck into them again. What I'm missing is the higher spec server but I'm just going to use one of the boxes as a server simply for a learning exercise dry run. What I've learnt so far: 1. Physically getting into some of these old boxes can be a hell of a job - they really had some daft cases last century! 2. Bits and bobs are often missing / not working so have a supply of floppy drives, mice, keyboards lined up - I use redstore. Nigel -- Nigel Pauli - I.T. Manager St. John's School, Northwood, U.K. http://www.st-johns.org.uk/
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