[Ltsp-discuss] problem with Intel 810 on mandrake 8.1

2001-12-20 Thread maheshwar kanitkar
hi all , I am fighting for ltsp from last 2 weeks. I have this hardware on server client 1) Intel 810 eea desktop motherboard 2) onboard sound,display,lan 3) both machines are connected by cross cable. OS 1) mandrake Linux 8.1 2) default dhcp 3.0 3) LTSP rpms ver. 3 now. my machine address

[Ltsp-discuss] Option to boot desired OS

2001-12-20 Thread Philip A . Roa
Hi everyone, I need some help with this one. My setup: diskless clients (to run DOS Linux) + linux server running LTS apps (DHCP, TFTP) Access: a) DOS, so client machines can reach the Novell server running legacy text based applications b) Linux, so they can run

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Option to boot desired OS

2001-12-20 Thread Emile Snyder
How are you booting DOS on the clients now? Is there a hard drive installed for it? If so, using lilo to optionally boot either DOS from the drive or Linux from your LTSP server is pretty straightforward. If there is no HD, using lilo on a boot floppy should also be pretty easy. I'm not sure

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] getting the most out of your monitor.

2001-12-20 Thread wouter . debacker
On 20-Dec-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, that's straightforward enough. But when do mode lines become important then? Those magic lines *might* help if your XF86Config has a suitable ModeLine to match. Some times you need to build a modeline by hand anyway. I use a seperate machine,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Working with different keymaps under shell

2001-12-20 Thread Dumas Patrice
Hi, I made a package which does exactly what you want. It is on http://www.geocities.com/patpertusus/ called lts_kmap. I took gunzip from my distro. It is an /etc/rc.d script, thus there are 2 variables to put in lts.conf RCFILE_xx= lts_kmap KEYMAP= fr It may be installed like other tgz

Re:[2] [Ltsp-discuss] Option to boot desired OS

2001-12-20 Thread Philip A . Roa
Hi, Emile Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted last 12/20/01 4:50:10 PM as follows: How are you booting DOS on the clients now? Is there a hard drive installed for it? If so, using lilo to optionally boot either DOS from the drive or Linux from your LTSP server is pretty straightforward. I'm

Re:[2] [Ltsp-discuss] Option to boot desired OS

2001-12-20 Thread Philip A . Roa
Hi Rudy, Thanks for the info. My problem really is getting LILO from the server to the thin client with no help from disks (FD,HD) I don't know if this is possible. regards, phil Rudy Hermawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted last 12/20/01 4:50:28 PM as follows: AFAIK, there is a boot image which

Re:[2] [Ltsp-discuss] Option to boot desired OS

2001-12-20 Thread Phil Davey
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Philip A. Roa wrote: I'm booting my clients via floppy for testing but eventually will move them to bootrom (etherboot) mode. No FDs nor HDs, there. Very thin. [snip] No problem booting either DOS or Linux by themselves. But i need the booting process to be somewhat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] download resume

2001-12-20 Thread Jim McQuillan
Adrian, I'm sorry to hear you are having a problem. Seems like lots of people are having trouble downloading from SourceForge. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about that. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adrian D'Costa wrote: Hi All, I am trying to download the rpm for v3.0. I use

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with Intel 810 on mandrake 8.1

2001-12-20 Thread Jim McQuillan
Mahashwar, In your dhcpd.conf file, your broadcast-address is wrong. It should be: 192.168.1.255 Also, you didn't show the contents of your /etc/exports file, instead I see 2 copies of your dhcpd.conf file. So, please send us your /etc/exports file. Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xserver Problem

2001-12-20 Thread Jim McQuillan
Dinesh, What are you doing when you get that error? What commands did you type? Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] vcare wrote: Receiving following error Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 if this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.XO-lock and start again Help

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Hep!!! can't get past login!! why?

2001-12-20 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
Xdmcp is set to true if i didn't have that i wouldn't even get a login screen you get is the X. yes i'm using kdm on redhat 7.1 latest redhat kernel (2.4.9 something i believe) and an updated KDE 2.2.2 I did finally get it to work by copying an old config into the kdmrc's place. it was really

[Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2001-12-20 Thread Junk Account
I have a Toshiba Tecra 500cs laptop. It has a 1.2 GB drive and 900 MB are set aside for Windows98. I just want to use the rest of the space to be able to set it up to be a dumb X terminal. I want to be able to able to be able to use my desktop as the server. What I will use the laptop for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] download resume

2001-12-20 Thread wouter . debacker
On 20-Dec-01 Jim McQuillan wrote: Adrian, I'm sorry to hear you are having a problem. Seems like lots of people are having trouble downloading from SourceForge. Of course! Their site has probably become way to huge and to complex for what they are (rightfully!) willing to invest to give

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2001-12-20 Thread Dario Rapisardi
Hi, Perhaps you could just use the 300 MB you have to install a small GNU/Linux system and then you could start the remote X session via the 'X -query server.name' command. Hope it helps, Dario. El Jue 20 Dic 2001 17:36, escribió: I have a Toshiba Tecra 500cs laptop. It has a 1.2 GB

Re:[2] [Ltsp-discuss] Option to boot desired OS

2001-12-20 Thread Philip A . Roa
Dear Jim, I'll check out and re-glean the Etherboot docs first and see what i can pick up from there. I'll then go to the Etherboot mailing list for additional 'hints' just when i'm ready to throw in the towel :-) Thanks Jim for responding, phil Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted last

[Ltsp-discuss] problem: clients sharing the same swapfile (and more...)

2001-12-20 Thread Erik Hjortsberg
I have a small (so far) ltsp-network (3.0.0, same problem with 2.0.9-pre4) with one Redhat 7.2 server, two clients and a separate dhcp-server. Everything runs fine, except that the ltsp's scripts doesn't get the names of the clients. That means that both client share the same swap-file

[Ltsp-discuss] Boot ROM image on CDROM???

2001-12-20 Thread Mike Ickes
Does anyone know if it is possible to use an image from rom-o-matic and place it on a Cdrom to boot from instead of a floppy??? How should it be burned to the CDROM? Thanks! Mike _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To

[Ltsp-discuss] floppyd

2001-12-20 Thread Rick Younie
I haven't been able to get local floppy drive access on the workstation with LTSP 3.0, Debian unstable. Help please. I've added this to rc.local, echo Running floppyd mknod -m 0666 /tmp/fd0 b 2 0 /bin/floppyd -d /tmp/fd0 ws001:0 :0 and also have MODULE_01= floppy in the [ws001] stanza

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] download resume

2001-12-20 Thread Adrian D'Costa
Hi, I had the same problem in resuming my downloads. Try doing the following: 1. Wait for around 5-10 mins before attempting to resume. It will resume your download but it may take some time (it may be a precaution on sourceforge side on DoS attacks (?) i don't know) Sourceforge seem to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Boot ROM image on CDROM???

2001-12-20 Thread Randall Craig
Yes it would be possible to boot from a cdrom. You would have to make a bootable ramdisk image with mknbi and then make the cdrom image bootable using the el torito method. For rom-o-matic you should just need to put this image into a bootable cdrom image ala el torito. Refer to the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Boot ROM image on CDROM???

2001-12-20 Thread CaScAdE
Mike Ickes [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 21.12.01: Does anyone know if it is possible to use an image from rom-o-matic and place it on a Cdrom to boot from instead of a floppy??? How should it be burned to the CDROM? It is possible, use the floppy image and some sort of burning/prog that is