hi all (cont) been playing with booting into Netscape et al tonight, works ok although you can do some hacks slightly differently to the Public-Web-Browser mini-HOWTO:- - run netscape direct from the shell, so you get nsmail directory set up, prior to setting .xsession to get it into Netscape every time. - the howto gives instructions for xdm, i think that kdm and gdm work the same way sort of in getting it to boot - i'm writing a script to automatically preload the netscape settings (email/cache etc for each account). Malcolm On Thursday 22 March 2001 22:34, Matt Johnson wrote:
--- Giles Nunn
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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