Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (292 mails)

[Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Giles Nunn <giles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
> 
> I am just starting on that adventure - which distro
> did you use and were
> there any major gotchas?
> 

SuSE 7, + the latest stuff from LTSP - 'core, kernel
and X server' rpms.

On the clients - Etherboot, preconfigured from the
ROM-o-matic website. I'm still booting from floppies
at the moment. Not sure if I'll ever burn my own
EPROM!

Gotchas? A couple of hours pondering, some coffee, and
only then realising that my firewall was running on
the server!

Doh!

I got an old 486 client to connect to it tonight!  So
very pleased. Only 8 bit colour, but quite quick.
(Anyone know why I can't get 16bit colour? - using
SVGA server? Am I asking to much of the ol' video card
in there? It's a Cirrus Logic I think)

A huge thanks to all those who posted help on the
locking desktops issues. Great response. Much help.

--
Matt 'stunned at how easy it is' Johnson



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