Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-16 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was impressively fast. I was curious about this and installed one of

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-16 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was impressively fast. Will it run in 256Mb RAM and on 512Mb of disk?  

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Hakan Koseoglu wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was impressively fast. I was curious about

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-15 Thread Reynolds McClatchey
Huh. A small version of Debian Etch. Boots (once POST has complted) in under 25 seconds. Hmm, old versions of software, and apt-get upgrade causes the system to die (root disk filled out) but definitely a possibility. I believe Synaptic is installed. I did not upgrade but used Synaptic to

[CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
I got my hands on a HP t5720. This was designed as a thin-client workstation (originally Windows XPembedded, talking to a Windows terminal server). It's not very powerful, with an AMD Geode NX 1500 (1.0 GHz), 256Mb RAM (16MB used for video) and a 512Mb flash hard disk. I plugged in a USB DVD

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What do people recommend for building this? What would have the quickest power-on-to-ready time? Well, you could use thin station, I have used it in the past and its pretty slick... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/14/2010 2:38 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: I got my hands on a HP t5720. This was designed as a thin-client workstation (originally Windows XPembedded, talking to a Windows terminal server). It's not very powerful, with an AMD Geode NX 1500 (1.0 GHz), 256Mb RAM (16MB used for video) and a

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/14/2010 2:38 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: I look at the LTSP code base, but this looks like it wants to run as it's own OS; I already have a C5 server in my house, I don't want to build LTSP doesn't install another OS on the

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:50:42PM +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What do people recommend for building this? What would have the quickest power-on-to-ready time? Well, you could use thin station, I have used it in the past and its pretty slick... Hmm... I'll take a look at that. Thanks!

[CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Stephen Harris wrote: My reading of the ltsp pages is that they prefer to distribute it as an OS image, with the ltsp components already integrated and that it's hard work to do the integration yourself.

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Reynolds McClatchey
Install the image for a t5725 from a USB stick. Very cool. http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=encc=usprodNameId=3221864taskId=135prodTypeId=12454prodSeriesId=3221863lang=encc=ussubmit=Go%20%BB -- M Reynolds McClatchey JrVP Engineering and Inventory

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/14/2010 3:26 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/14/2010 2:38 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: I look at the LTSP code base, but this looks like it wants to run as it's own OS; I already have a C5 server in my house, I don't want to build

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:38:20 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I got my hands on a HP t5720. This was designed as a thin-client workstation (originally Windows XPembedded, talking to a Windows terminal server). It's not very powerful, with an AMD Geode NX 1500 (1.0 GHz),

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:37:21PM -0400, Reynolds McClatchey wrote: Install the image for a t5725 from a USB stick. Very cool. Huh. A small version of Debian Etch. Boots (once POST has complted) in under 25 seconds. Hmm, old versions of software, and apt-get upgrade causes the system to die

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:11:12PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: I got my hands on a HP t5720. This was designed as a thin-client What do people recommend for building this? What would have the quickest power-on-to-ready time? You will *probably* find LTSP's performance disapointing,

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:37:21PM -0400, Reynolds McClatchey wrote: Huh. A small version of Debian Etch. Boots (once POST has complted) in under 25 seconds. Hmm, old versions of software, and apt-get upgrade causes the system to die (root disk filled out) but

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:37:21PM -0400, Reynolds McClatchey wrote: Install the image for a t5725 from a USB stick. Very cool. Huh. A small version of Debian Etch. Boots (once POST has complted) in under 25 seconds. Hmm, old versions of software, and apt-get

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:26:44PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was impressively fast. Will it run in 256Mb RAM and on 512Mb of disk? 'Cos

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:41:40PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:37:21PM -0400, Reynolds McClatchey wrote: Install the image for a t5725 from a USB stick. Very cool. Huh. A small version of Debian Etch. Boots (once POST has complted) in

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:26:44PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was impressively fast. Will it run in

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:26:44PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread John R Pierce
Stephen Harris wrote: So I thought this would be a great device to build as an instant on type device. Well, as close to instant-on as possible :-) This probably means a standard C5 build is not suitable (too many processes running; would take a while to start up). So an X terminal, maybe.