Lauro-
You won't be able to format the floppy from the server, since it is
essentially a network share, not a low-level device. It would be the same
if you tried to format a network share via SMB or NFS. You'll need to run
the formatting program on the local terminal itself. You can script this
with ssh with something like:
ssh term01 mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0
You can get fancier, of course, by getting the current terminal address from
the $DISPLAY environment variable. Ltsp may have some scripts already to do
this; I don't recall.
The main difficulty I can see will be permissions on the device /dev/fd0. I
suppose you either configure sudo on the terminals (hard), or add an rc
script that runs during terminal boot to chgrp the group permissions on
/dev/fd0 to a user group (easier). Just put your shell script in
$LTSP/etc/rc.d and have it called from lts.conf with RCFILE_01=myscript.
-Todd
On 12/7/06, Lauro Costa G. Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I can use my floppy drive with no problems, localdev seems to be just
fine. But I have this one problem, kfloppy (which accepts device name as
argument) does not work, tells me a problem occurred with the device. I
set up LOCAL_DEVICE instances on lts.conf, but not working yet. It
doesn't need to be kfloppy, if I can run an old shell script I have in
one of the labs, to properly use mkfs.msdos, that's ok. They're familiar
with that interface to format their floppies.
thanks,
Lauro
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