[Ltsp-discuss] Booting from the local Harddisk

2001-11-12 Thread Peter Wagner
Hi, can anyone help me booting the workstations from their local Harddisk, and not from the Bootprom. Thanks, Peter Wagner- Jetzt kostenlos bei T-Motion registrieren unter http://www.t-motion.de - _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernel null pointer with ltsp2.09pre4 and pxegrub

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Abraham, When I build kernels for LTSP workstations, I NEVER use redhat kernel sources. they apply many many patches to their kernels that the workstations just don't need. If you want to build your own kernels, I suggest you go to ftp.kernel.org and grab yourself a nice fresh set of kernel sou

[Ltsp-discuss] Kernel null pointer with ltsp2.09pre4 and pxegrub

2001-11-12 Thread Abraham Pearson
Hi, LTSP rocks! I am using kernel 2.4.9 sources downloaded from redhat. I am using a kernel built with the config file that came with ltsp2.09pre4 initrd_kit for non lpp kernels. PXEgrub 0.90 is our bootloader (we have intel nics with no place for Bootrom). I did not patch the

[Ltsp-discuss] Distribute the bzImage with the initrd kit

2001-11-12 Thread Darryl Bond
Jim, I am hot on the trail of the problem I have with my IGEL terminals. I need to try rebuilding the tagged image with a different mknbi option as recommended by Ken Yapp of Etherboot. KY>Does first32.c report the RAM size and ramdisk size? Is this one of KY>those machines where the video RAM

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] et al

2001-11-12 Thread Wouter DeBacker
Patrick Grantham wrote: > > What's the best way to get started with LTSP? > IMO there is no *best way*. It all depends on what you try to achieve. However, about a year ago I started with a Pentium 1 server, a single 486 thin client and SuSE Linux 6.2. I've built up from there ever since. CU W

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cannot mount nfs

2001-11-12 Thread Bitlov
Hi, I have remove the ip in the root path but that's not better. Here is exactely what i read on my workstation : IP-Config: Complete: if=eth0, addr=172.30.0.2,mask=255.255.0.0,gw=172.30.0.1, host=jack, domain=,nis-domain=(none), bootserver=172.30.0.1, rootserver=172.30.0.1, rootpath= Looki

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] KDM / XDM

2001-11-12 Thread Martin Herweg
Matthias Tinnemeier wrote: > hi @ all! > > is it possible to use kdm instead of xdm? what's to do unter suse 7.3pro?? > suse usually takes kdm as the default if KDE is installed. you can set it with yast->admin.->login konfiguration or in /etc/rc.config: # # Here you can set the default Display

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] et al

2001-11-12 Thread Patrick Grantham
I have Suse Linux running on a dual intel 700; 512MB RAM, voodoo banshee 3dfx with 32 30 GB HD and an AMD 500 with 256MB RAM also with a voodo-banshee 3dfx card. Enough parts for at least three more boxes with various configurations. Step 1: download tar, and install per instructions (are there

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Problem in Ltsp2.09pre4 version

2001-11-12 Thread Sherfudeen
Dear jim and friends, * sir when i try to boot the workstation with vmlinuz-lpp boot image [ie progress bar]using LTSP-2.09pre4... * The error is ,* you passed an undefined mod number * press to see the mode available, press to conti

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] et al

2001-11-12 Thread Patrick Grantham
What's the best way to get started with LTSP? _ 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 o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat 7.2 and gdm

2001-11-12 Thread John McCreesh
Dumb suggestion - log on to the server as root and type xdm, and then see if the login box appears on the client? John On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 14:10, Diego Gil wrote: > Jim, > > I am not getting a login dialog box, all I get a a gray screen with the X > cursor. Could you send me your gdm.conf ?.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Modified X server & Cyrix video

2001-11-12 Thread Eduardo Chammas - Eurocabos
Thanks Jim, I couldn't find the path you mention but I found the servers SVGA and Mach64 in /tftpboot/lts/ltsroot/ltsbin. I put the modified server over there and made the changes to lts.conf and it seems to work. Thanks a lot, Eduardo Chammas SP - Brasil > Eduardo, > > Yes, copy that custom X

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 7.3 / new DHCP Version

2001-11-12 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
I'm glad someone read that hehe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 7.3 / new DHCP Version Mattias > > Try putting this line in your dhcpd.conf file: > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 7.3 / new DHCP Version

2001-11-12 Thread jam
Mattias > > Try putting this line in your dhcpd.conf file: > > ddns-update-style ad-hoc; > > if that doesn't work try __ > > ddns-update-style none; > That cannot be the solution because this entry is already available. Option unique-name1 code 128 = string; #use any unique-value-here Optio

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Desktop config

2001-11-12 Thread Martin Herweg
Grgicevic Davor (VTG) wrote: > Hi .. I am tring to costumize my LTSP server > The rason for this is .. To get .. For all kids at start > The same desktop and.. I have that. > To put/remove neccesery programs from desktop . > For instance cdrom or floppy .. Or other things..( default germa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble booting... XF86_SVGA?

2001-11-12 Thread Marcus Smith
This worked for the most part. I found I also had to configure the lts.conf file to specify that some workstations use "XF86_SVGA" for the xserver parameter. Just wouldn't take "auto" for an answer. The odd part that all of my workstations use ATI cards, and other people only seem to have issues w

[Ltsp-discuss] Additional information to "can't login"

2001-11-12 Thread Matthias Tinnemeier
Hi! additional information to my other posting "can't login" when i use susewm to choose fvwm2 as my windowmanager i can login! but when i coose kde (kde2) it doesn't work!! Matthias _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-sub

[Ltsp-discuss] KDM / XDM

2001-11-12 Thread Matthias Tinnemeier
hi @ all! is it possible to use kdm instead of xdm? what's to do unter suse 7.3pro?? matthias _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-disc

[Ltsp-discuss] can't login

2001-11-12 Thread Matthias Tinnemeier
Hi! I've installed LTSP 2.09pre4 on SuSE 7.3pro. My client boots and shows xdm-login. I can enter my username&password (user: mattin), screen changes for a second and then i'm back at xdm-login. /var/log/messages say's: Nov 12 18:34:04 tux PAM-unix2Ä4211Ü: session started for user mattin, servi

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound problem in terminal

2001-11-12 Thread Hans Petrie
Greetings, What type of sound card are you using? This will make all of the difference. Also, I had no luck with ltspsound0.1c package. I had to re-do the rc.sound script. If you login to the terminal (set to runlevel 3 or telnet into it) and run lsmods what modules do you have loaded? Here

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble booting... XF86_SVGA?

2001-11-12 Thread Malcolm Herbert
hi it seems that he 'vesa' driver in X 4.1.0 may be an option. i;ve got this working with an old SIS 6205 chipset machine today, with 2.0.9pre on RH 7.2, 3c509 card Packaging the old X 3.x.x servers will be useful i'll put the lts.conf on my website later http://people.redhat.com/mherbert

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcpd works now AND ne2000-isa-NIC and LTSP 2.0.9pre4

2001-11-12 Thread Matthias Tinnemeier
> You will need to know what IO address the Ne2000 card is set to. Then, you > need a couple of options in dhcpd.conf: > option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; > option option-129 "NIC=ne IO=0x300"; it works, thank you! Matthias __

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcpd works now AND ne2000-isa-NIC and LTSP 2.0.9pre4

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Matthias, You will need to know what IO address the Ne2000 card is set to. Then, you need a couple of options in dhcpd.conf: option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; option option-129 "NIC=ne IO=0x300"; That is assuming that your network card is set at 0x300. Notice the option-128 value is NO

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Autologon

2001-11-12 Thread Martin Herweg
Jim McQuillan gave me his kdmrc for autologin with KDM: -- # KDM configuration example. # Note, that all comments will be lost if you change this file with # the kcontrol frontend. # # Definition: the greeter is the logi

[Ltsp-discuss] dhcpd works now AND ne2000-isa-NIC and LTSP 2.0.9pre4

2001-11-12 Thread Matthias Tinnemeier
Hi! I've changed to dhcpd v2 and it works correctly - thanks to Bastian Dingeldein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>!! NEW problem: one of my clients has a ne2000 isa nic in it. what is the right dhcpd-option for this NIC?? Matthias _ Lts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Modified X server & Cyrix video

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Eduardo, Yes, copy that custom X server to /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/bin. You can call it whatever you like. Maybe XF86_SVGA.cx5530 Then, in the lts.conf file, you can set XSERVER=XF86_SVGA.cx5530 in the section for that specific workstation. You can also set XF86CONFIG_FILE to point to your cu

[Ltsp-discuss] Modified X server & Cyrix video

2001-11-12 Thread Eduardo Chammas - Eurocabos
Hi, I've been trying to put a Cyrix CX5530 integrated graphics to work with 1024x768 and 16bpp for a couple of weeks. I discovered that it work with some files (XF86Config and XF86_SVGA ) I found on the National's web site at : http://wwwd.national.com/national/SReleaseF.nsf/2865b628fac0f1b787256

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 7.3 / new DHCP Version

2001-11-12 Thread Matthias Tinnemeier
Hi! > Try putting this line in your dhcpd.conf file: > ddns-update-style ad-hoc; > if that doesn't work try __ > ddns-update-style none; That cannot be the solution because this entry is already available. Here dhcpd.conf with the LTSP modifications therein: [---beginning of /etc/dhcpd.con

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 7.3 / new DHCP Version

2001-11-12 Thread Bastian Dingeldein
Hi, both dhcpd version , two stable and three rc , are included in SuSE 7.3. You just have to change the DAEMON_BIN variable in /etc/rc.d/dhcpd into DAEMON_BIN=/usr/sbin/dhcpd-2. That's the way i did after different trouble with dhcpd 3.0. good luck, bastian Randall Craig wrote: >Try putt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat 7.2 and gdm

2001-11-12 Thread Diego Gil
Jim, I am not getting a login dialog box, all I get a a gray screen with the X cursor. Could you send me your gdm.conf ?. I suppose this is a authentication issue, but I cant figure out where . Diego. - Original Message - From: "Jim McQuillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Diego Gil" <[EMAI

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat 7.2 and gdm

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Diego, When you say it doesn't work, are you getting the login dialog box, then it fails to let you log in? if so, that is a known problem with PAM, if your password is more than 8 characters. This has been fixed with the latest PAM packages available on the redhat site, and through RHN. I'

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat 7.2 and gdm

2001-11-12 Thread Diego Gil
Jim, [xdmcp]' was 'Enable=true'. I doesn´t work. Maybe there is something new with 7.2, Please look this copy of a recent post : >Hello Hugo and others... >I've just started using ltsp myself, and here are some hints: >I've just got RH 7.2 working with the latest 2.09pre4 version of LTSP. The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat 7.2 and gdm

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Diego, Take a look at your /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file. Look for the '[xdmcp]' section and make sure it says 'Enable=true'. Somewhere along the way, somebody changed the entry from 'Enable=0/1' to 'Enable = false/true'. The newer versions require the 'true' instead of '1'. Hope that helps, Ji

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] autologin

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Marek, I've done this with KDM on a Redhat 7.2 machine. In your /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc file, you can add entries like the following: # # These entries will allow auto-login. # # Each workstation can have its own unique user id # [X-ws004:0-Core] AutoLoginEnable=true AutoLoginUser=jam [X-ws005:0-C

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cannot mount nfs

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Bitlov, in your '--rootdir=' option, you can't put the IP address. the kernel will ignore that. If you need to specify a server different from the dhcp/tftp server, then you need to do it in the 'rootpath' option in dhcpd.conf. And, you need to be using ltsp 2.09pre4 for that to work properly

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble booting... XF86_SVGA?

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Marcus, You have two choices: 1) Find the XF86_SVGA binary from the old LTSP installation and copy it to /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/bin 2) Change your 'XSERVER' line to 'XSERVER = auto' in the lts.conf file. It will then automatically detect your video card and use the correct driver.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stuck at Mouting NFS Filesystem

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Duan, WHen you built your kernel, did you also apply the NFS-swap patch? Try setting the nfs swap option to 'N' in lts.conf, and see if it makes it further. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rudhuwan Abu Bakar wrote: > hi everyone > > What causes this? When I boot my client with 2.4.9 kernel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-2.09pre4 - Boot problem

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Giorgio, You can get that error if the dhcpd isn't setup properly on your server. the dhclient program will attempt to get a response from the server. If it succeeds, then it will automatically create the dhcpd-eth0.info file and fill it with the information it needs. If the dhclient program

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2.09pre4 and old video card

2001-11-12 Thread Jim McQuillan
Ola, In the lts.conf file, you can specify XSERVER = XF86_S3 Then, you need to find an old XFree 3.3.6 XF86_S3 Xserver, either from an older Linux distribution, or you can pull it out of one of the older LTSP X packages. Put the server in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/bin That should do it. We wil

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble booting... XF86_SVGA?

2001-11-12 Thread Johann GORLIER
Ppl stops me if I'm wrong but, Marcus Smith a écrit : > > Hi. > > It's Sunday night at 1:00am. I've been sitting here for that last 12 hours dealing > with a botched RedHat 7.2 upgrade and I'm getting quite loopy. I have RedHat 7.2 > functioning now and I thought I'd take the time to upgrade th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat 7.2 and gdm

2001-11-12 Thread Diego Gil
Jim, I´m sorry for the delay to answer. I was out during weekend. I mean that gmd reject the workstation connection. I get only the "gray screen with an X". I don´t have thne linux box here right now, but log files says something about "connection rejected". I´ll send you log files later. xdmcp

[Ltsp-discuss] Cannot mount nfs

2001-11-12 Thread Bitlov
Hi, My client boot but stucks at the mount of nfs. It says that it looks at 13/2 and 15/1 and then "nfs server not available". Or when I look on the server, there is nfsd and mountd on thoose numbers. I have compiled myself the kernel and I made : mknbi-linux --output=/tftpboot/lts/vmlin

[Ltsp-discuss] Desktop config

2001-11-12 Thread Grgicevic Davor (VTG)
Hi .. I am tring to costumize my LTSP server The rason for this is .. To get .. For all kids at start The same desktop and.. To put/remove neccesery programs from desktop . For instance cdrom or floppy .. Or other things..( default german keyboard, Desktop definitition . Ect. ) And to ma

[Ltsp-discuss] autologin

2001-11-12 Thread Marek Czernohous
I need an autologon for my X-Terminals, so that instead of having XDM pop up a login window, i want it to automatically log in as the user ``guest'' as soon as it starts up. Does somebody know how to do that? thanks in advance! Marek Czernohous -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

[Ltsp-discuss] Trouble booting... XF86_SVGA?

2001-11-12 Thread Marcus Smith
Hi. It's Sunday night at 1:00am. I've been sitting here for that last 12 hours dealing with a botched RedHat 7.2 upgrade and I'm getting quite loopy. I have RedHat 7.2 functioning now and I thought I'd take the time to upgrade the LTSP software to 2.09pre4. After a few bumps and bruises I have i

[Ltsp-discuss] Stuck at Mouting NFS Filesystem

2001-11-12 Thread Rudhuwan Abu Bakar
hi everyone What causes this? When I boot my client with 2.4.9 kernel , it got stuck at Mounting NFS File system..But when I boot the client with kernel 2.2.14, it booted ok. What did I miss in the kernel configuration? I tried to compile my own by referring to .config supplied by Jim. Thanks

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-2.09pre4 - Boot problem

2001-11-12 Thread giorgio rossi
Hi All, during the boot, i have this message Running dhclient ERROR!   No dhcpd-eth0.info file My /etc/dhcpc and /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/dhcpc directory is empty, where is this file? I have the same problem with a PIII 500 Davicom 9102 and 486 hp vectra with ne2000 ISA. tanks giorgio __