I have been asked to redirect my question to an LTSP list, so here it is. /Erik Alapää
-- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: see my webpage (web-address below) web: http://www.math.chalmers.se/~alapaa/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:20:06 +0200 (MEST) From: Erik Alapää <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Local apps on EPIA thin client Hello. I am using a VIA EPIA box as a thin client with LTSP/Etherboot. Using cbrom, I have managed to convert the client from PXE to Etherboot, and I have booted a simple setup with LTSP using my ordinary RedHat 7.3 workstation as LTSP/NFS server. For NIS, NFS/home, DHCP server and tftp server (kernel download) we use the company's normal server, an X86 box running FreeBSD. Now I would like to enable sound and get as many apps as possible running in local RAM (256MB on the thin client). Has anyone on the list tried a similar setup? (using my workstation as LTSP server is mostly for experimentation, I might later set up a PIII server in the server room to run RedHat with LTSP later), or perhaps use the "official" FreeBSD server for everything. The LTSP manual says about local apps and previous versions of LTSP: "Directories such as /bin, /usr/bin , /lib and /usr were exposed to the workstation. The problem with that scheme is that it only works if the workstation and the server are the same architecture. In fact, even differences, like the server being a Pentium II (i686) and the workstation being a classic Pentium (i586) can be a problem, because the server will likely have the i686 libraries and not the i386, i486 or i586 libraries. So, the cleanest way to handle this is to have a complete tree with all of the binaries and libraries that the workstation will need, independent of the server binaries and libraries." I have installed the LTSP local apps RPM. How should I proceed, should I install RedHat on the EPIA using a hard drive, and then copy useful parts of that installation to the /opt/ltsp/i386 on my LTSP server, or is there a more clever way? Perhaps someone using the VIA EPIA thin clients can even donate a tarball of their /opt/ltsp/i386 directory? One more question: The CPU is a VIA C3 800 MHz - has anyone tried running this one fanless, perhaps with a bigger heatsink? It would be REALLY nice with a totally fanless client :) Best regards, /Erik Alapää -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: see my webpage (web-address below) web: http://www.math.chalmers.se/~alapaa/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
