[Ltsp-discuss] Mounting / as rw

2002-04-21 Thread Cobus Hill
Okay firstly this is for local-apps enabled workstations, I was thinking down the line of, say you have RPMS you want to install for the workstations it will be a lot easier to boot the workstation with a read-write environment, run rpm on the workstation. this will then expand the rpm to the c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-21 Thread David Johnston
Frank Van Damme wrote: > Durons on the client??? terrible waste of cpu power and money, what is the > use for a thin client then? > And ... he's talking about 500 clients. Are you often opening 2500 or more > apps on a computer with 3 gigs of ram? I don't think so... He needs 8 gigs, > preferabl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] StarOffice Printing Problems

2002-04-21 Thread David Johnston
Janyne Kizer wrote: > David Johnston wrote: > > how do your local Star Office setups connect to the printer (directly to > > the printer, via the server's spooler)? Do the remote users connect the > > same way? > Both are connecting to the print queue (the StarOffice queue is > connected to the r

Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client will not start

2002-04-21 Thread jam
Ben, Usually, the next step for me is to run tcpdump and watch the packets fly. I can help you look at it, if you want to come over to the #ltsp IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net Jim. On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ben King wrote: > ok... I do have the dhcpd.conf set to /lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5 (un

Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client will not start

2002-04-21 Thread Ben King
ok... I do have the dhcpd.conf set to /lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5 (under the dir this is what I have). I have tried all of them. Also I get "udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:690.0.0.0:* " when I run netstat -an | grep ":69 ". hosts.allow I have bootpd0.0.0.0in.tftpd192.168.1. portmap 192.168.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-21 Thread Derek Dresser
Quoting Frank Van Damme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 03:00 am, you wrote: > > Guys, > > > > A customer has come to me asking about the possibility of using Linux in > a > > new rollout. They are keen on using Linux on thin clients, and the best > > solution seems to be LTSP. > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] client won't boot

2002-04-21 Thread Denzil Kelly
Here is the output from: netstat -an| grep ":67" udp0 0 0.0.0.0:67 0.0.0.0:* > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Denzil Kelly wrote: > > > I am running debian woody, and I am running ltsp > 3.0. > > I am having the follow problem. The client won't > boo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] client won't boot

2002-04-21 Thread jam
Denzil, You showed us a bunch of NFS stuff, but you aren't getting that far. Looking at your output from ifconfig -a, I see that eth0 isn't up. I wonder if you have dhcpd configured to listen on eth0 and not eth1. Try this on the server: netstat -an | grep ":67 " and tell us what it say

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-21 Thread Dave Shiels
Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 09:02 pm, Alex younts wrote: > >>My suggestion would go something like this: >>Server: Dual Athlon 2000+ with 3GB of DDR RAM and SCSI hard drives with a >> 1Gbps connection to your switch >>Client: AMD Duron 600 with 32MB of RAM and

[Ltsp-discuss] client won't boot

2002-04-21 Thread Denzil Kelly
I am running debian woody, and I am running ltsp 3.0. I am having the follow problem. The client won't boot. I get this message: Searching for server (DHCP)... dhcpd is running on the server. ifconfig -a gives: dummy0Lin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-21 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Sunday 21 April 2002 09:02 pm, Alex younts wrote: > My suggestion would go something like this: > Server: Dual Athlon 2000+ with 3GB of DDR RAM and SCSI hard drives with a >    1Gbps connection to your switch > Client: AMD Duron 600 with 32MB of RAM and a 100Mbps NIC > Howev

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-21 Thread Alex younts
My suggestion would go something like this: Server: Dual Athlon 2000+ with 3GB of DDR RAM and SCSI hard drives with a 1Gbps connection to your switch Client: AMD Duron 600 with 32MB of RAM and a 100Mbps NIC However, depending on what how many things the users are doing, that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-21 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Sunday 21 April 2002 03:00 am, you wrote: > Guys, > > A customer has come to me asking about the possibility of using Linux in a > new rollout. They are keen on using Linux on thin clients, and the best > solution seems to be LTSP. > > Configuration will prob be something like KDE3, Open Office

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-21 Thread rob
Hi Craig, I think consideration priority should probably be the server hardware, then the network hardware, then the client hardware. Although my application is no where near 500 clients, I would imagine that the priority is still the same. After first setting up LTSP with a handfull of workstati

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] StarOffice Printing Problems

2002-04-21 Thread Janyne Kizer
Both are connecting to the print queue (the StarOffice queue is connected to the regular Linux print queue). David Johnston wrote: > > Janyne Kizer wrote: > > My group has started to rollout RedHat 7.2 systems to several remote > > sites. We are running StarOffice 5.2 on these systems and we ha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pbs with dhcpd. conf or dhclient ; kernel panic

2002-04-21 Thread rob
Hi Ilunga, Although you do have an option root path specified, surf6 does not know about it because the option is specified in the group declarationwhich surf6 is not member of. Try this instead: not authoritative; ddns-update-style none; default-lease-time21600; max-lease-

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem: Mounting root filesystem

2002-04-21 Thread jam
Jorgen, Turn off ipchains, and see if it works. My guess is that it will work. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jørgen Pedersen wrote: > -Hi, and thanks to Jim and David for suggestions > > In the meantime I have installed K12ltsp on a server in our testroom at > work. D

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client will not start

2002-04-21 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il giorno Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Frosted_Duck così ha scritto: |From: Frosted_Duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: LTSP Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:51:38 -0500 |Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Client will not start | |I've gone threw the docs and can't seem to get anywhere... so please hel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client will not start

2002-04-21 Thread jam
Ben, This is NOT a NFS or Portmapper problem. You aren't getting that far yet. Are you just getting dots forever ? It is normal to get several lines of dots, but then the kernel should kick in and start producing lots of messages. Do you have a file called "vmlinuz.ltsp" in the /tftpboot/lts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem: Mounting root filesystem

2002-04-21 Thread Jørgen Pedersen
-Hi, and thanks to Jim and David for suggestions In the meantime I have installed K12ltsp on a server in our testroom at work. Default installation, same procedure as I have tried at home. The server at work: HP P2 500, 128Mb, Realtek 8139 - and client: IBM P2 amd 500, 128 Mb, realtek 8139..

[Ltsp-discuss] Client will not start

2002-04-21 Thread Frosted_Duck
I've gone threw the docs and can't seem to get anywhere... so please help... let me start with a little info.. redhat 7.2, dhcp is working because the client i has the ip that i gave it... the client is using www.rom-o-matic.com for the bootdisk.. tftp is installed... but i'm not sure that its