On Wed, April 23, 2008 10:33 am, Mark Rogers wrote: > Phil Thompson wrote: >> For the meeting a couple of old PCs with LAN connections could be the >> clients. AIUI you can't LAN-boot over wifi ? > > We still have plenty of old PCs we can use if necessary. (They've all > been wiped and reinstalled with Windows so any we use I'll need to > reinstall afterwards, so any spare HDDs we can use for the night if we > need to use the PCs would be appreciated.)
LTSP doesn't use hard disk. You can take the drives out of the PCs if you want to. I've setup a couple of VMs using Edubuntu server on a host-only configuration - works nicely. As has been raised, I think the only major issue is sound - a must-have in an educational environment. > I would have assumed that if there was BIOS-level support for the > wireless hardware there'd be no reason it wouldn't work, and that the > chances of the BIOS supporting it would be minimal making the first > point redundant. However, a PC cabled to a wireless access point should > work? I have no idea to be honest. Just the same as any DHCP client I suspect. Malc -- Web Development, Technical Copy-Editing & Proofreading KDE Proofreading Team KDE British English Translation Team http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
