On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Jerome Warnier wrote: > Well, not really a suggestion, but it seems rather weird to me that a > thin client could have a CDROM drive to boot Knoppix. Am I the only one?
Most of our thin clients are old desktop machines. While we might remove the cd-rom, etc when rolling them out we can certainly use one while initially configuring them. Really it's a monitor thing not a pc thing so what I hope to do is collate settings for each monitor type. The monitor could always be hooked to a desktop machine just for this. Again, these are things I would have no problem doing and I recently talked a teacher through it over the phone, but it's a pretty complicated sequence to document and recommend to a beginner. > Better use some LTSP modified just to do that, but then, why doesn't > LTSP provide it from the first time? I'm unsure how the main installer detects hardware (I suspect read-edid package as it is mentioned in xserver-xfree86 Debian package description) but it gets it bang on even on the old monitors. Apparently LTSP uses something a little less clever. Perhaps ltsp4 will be better? Gavin
