Thanks, I didn't read that before, it's not a device, a network share. I'll won't have to worry, since students can and will keep formating the boot floppies, those machines don't have PXE, but your ideas may be useful on other labs I manage, I' write them down. I'll leave teacher's machine to do that.
thanks again, Lauro > 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 >> >> >> -- >> Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e >> acredita-se estar livre de perigo. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >> your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > -- > Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e > acredita-se estar livre de perigo. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV_____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
