On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 06:40, Angel E. Gabriel wrote: > How would this help... > > " 1) It only has slow ISA slots and AFAIK 100 Mb ISA NICs are hard to > find. If you're using hubs then try replacing them with switches "
When you are using hubs you share bandwidth across all ports. A switch on the contrary will have the full 100Mb per port. tom > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:39 PM > To: LTSP discussion list > Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] 386 as workstation > > > Hi Peter, > > According to my experience a 386, when used as a terminal, has the > following problematic areas: > > 1) It only has slow ISA slots and AFAIK 100 Mb ISA NICs are hard to > find. If you're using hubs then try replacing them with switches > > 2) Usually its graphics card contains 512 Kb of slow RAM. If you're > lucky that amount can be expanded to at most 1 Mb. Therefore, you'll > never get beyond a resolution of 800x600 with an 8 bit colordepth > Unless of course you replace the graphics card with a more capable > one. Your choice will be limited though, because as in 1) you have to > stick to the ISA type of cards > > Nevertheless, the above doesn't necessarily have to be a problem. It > all depends on which kind of applications you want to execute. Forget > about KDE, Gnome, office suits, Konqueror, Netscape and the like. On > the other hand, in an Internet kiosk setup you might get away with > those 386s and, say, Opera or Phoenix > > Success > > > On 22-Jan-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to run a 386/40 MHZ with 8 MB of RAM as workstation, > > connected via > > 10BaseT to the server. The trouble is that the whole boot process > > is during > > some 4 minutes. The download of the kernel works fine, > > "uncompressing > > Linux" is some half a Minute, then "Initializing RAM disk" also > > some 1/2-1 > > minute, the following tasks (building of the scripts) are som tens > > of > > seconds. On a Pentium90/32MB Ram the Boot process is during some 30 > > Seconds. Is there any way to make it faster? Is a 386 PRACTICALY > > useable as > > a workstation? > > > > Thanx, Peter > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > > http://mail2web.com/ > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive > > scholarships > > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and > > more > > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > _ > > 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.freenode.net > > -------------------------------------------- > Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 22-Jan-03 23:39:00 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) > -------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net Tom Schouteden Consultant Linugen Borkelstraat 2/4 B2900 Schoten Belgium T +32 3 685 39 81 F +32 3 293 33 43 M +32 475 45 85 55 www.linugen.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
