Francois, When you get your machine connected to the internet, please send me a copy of your scripts. I'd like to see exactly what you did.
Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, François Mauger wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Cobus wrote: > > > Hi! > > Has anyone started KDE as a local-App on the workstation? if so could you please >tell me how!!! > > Cobus Hill > > > > I chosed to use ltsp209 (RH71) to boot my ws (celeron > 800MHz/RAM 129Mb) but i run **everything** locally: kdm , kde then everything. > > For this i recompiled a 2.4.9 kernel without swap over nfs > but with ide support and replace by this new stuff the standard ltsp > kernel (see the ltsp_initrd package). > Then i created 2 partitions on the local ws HD: 256Mb for swap and > 512Mo for tmp (i don't use the /tmp via ramdisk). > I populated the /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/X11 with some stuff from a RH71 > distro and i dynamically build a kdmrc file taking into account NIS > users and a local generic account built at boot time on each ws > I have strongly modified the etc/rc.local script to run all this stuff > and some links in etc/ : > > - formatting local swap and /tmp at each boot > - running ypbind > - mounting /bin /sbin /lib , /usr and /home from the server via NFS > - then at the end running kdm in runlevel 5 > When users connect, they get a full KDE desktop running locally. > > My private class-C net is 100Mbps with 2 unswitched hubs each with 6 ws, > I guess that in some circumstancies NFS can by > slow... this system is quite new I can't tell you more, i have to check > it with all ws running simultaneously > > Unfortunately, my system is not connected to the internet yet > (waiting for a fixed IP address from the net-admin at university), > so I can't send you > my rc.local script, my dhcpd.conf, lts.conf nor a tree-snapshot of my > /opt/ltsp/i386/etc dir. i'll do it as soon as possible. > > this solution is clearly not in the pure spirit of ltsp but I have > powerfull workstations and a not-so-powerfull server !! > so why not using fully the ws cpu, keeping the powerfull administrative > tool from ltsp... > hope this will give you some hints > > frc > -- > François Mauger > Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen et Université de Caen > ISMRA - 6, Boulevard du Marechal Juin, 14050 CAEN Cedex, FRANCE > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fax: (0/33) 2 31 45 25 12 > web-page: http://www.physique-eea.unicaen.fr/~fmauger/ > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
