I've got a laptop with a PCMCIA ethernet adaptor and I'm sick of running Windows on it exclusively.
Because its only NIC is PCMCIA, I can't just PXE-boot it. So I copied the LTSP kernel and initrd into the laptop's /boot/ directory and booted from it, and since the LTSP initrd doesn't have drivers for PCMCIA stuff, it can't boot. (Drivers? Modules? I don't know the terminology) I know that if I (for example) installed a full-blown distribution of Linux, I could use XDMCP every time I log in to connect to my LTSP server, which is almost like it being a real thin-client. But then I'm potentially installing a huge distribution on the laptop, which is basically wasted. The nearest distro I have that I could use is Fedora Core 5 or 6, and that is an awfully big distribution for this laptop. Is there a lighter distro that I could install, and easily configure to automatically connect via XDMCP to the LTSP-server, rather than log into itself? Is there maybe a distro made specifically to this task? David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
