Re: [Ltsp-discuss] virtual terminal problems

2002-05-03 Thread Prakash Advani
Thanks, that worked but it says: Press to establish a connection with the server. Is there anyways to bypass that and give directly the login prompt? It doesn't start X, if I type startx it gives PAM authentical failure. I also dont see the file start_ws generated which I can run. Regards P

[Ltsp-discuss] Standard LPP kernel

2002-05-03 Thread Evgeny Limarenko
Greetings, Today I tried to boot network computers using second standard LTSP kernel: vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-lpp-6 instead of vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-6. I expected a nice boot picture, but I could only get the same text screen with a lot of lines of text. I could see a new line though and it was: /linuxrc

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] linux distribution

2002-05-03 Thread FRANK . VANDAMME
Aanhalen Dario Rapisardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I just have one question regarding the packaging system: How are you > going to face it? RPMs, DEBs, or perhaps something else? > > Regards, If you absolutely must make your own distro (why?) for christ's sake go for .deb. Frank ___

[Ltsp-discuss] Loading LTSP-klients via Lilo ?

2002-05-03 Thread Kim Kloster
Hi. I am looking for a neat way to install Lilo and then have lilo to start my Etherboot on the clients. From the Rom-O-Matic site I find the lilo-option image but no info reg. Howto. Not beeing able to to do the Eprom burning, reluctent to use win/dos-load (though easy). The boot-diskett is not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Loading LTSP-klients via Lilo ?

2002-05-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:58:24PM +0200, Kim Kloster wrote: > I am looking for a neat way to install Lilo and then have lilo to start > my Etherboot on the clients. > The boot-diskett is not useful at primary school as they would likely > vanish. You could try to put the diskdrive inside the bo

[Ltsp-discuss] linux distribution

2002-05-03 Thread Michael H . Collins
The world could use a few more distros. heheh Anyone know what the count is now? All my clients demand RedHat. Have fun. sounds stranger than Sorcerer even. >A lot of good input so far on ideas for our linux >distro. Here hopefully are some anwsers. >Distro Levels. There will be 4 differ

[Ltsp-discuss] Hotmail & Epson Printers

2002-05-03 Thread Peter Billson
Hi *, I am running LTSP in a public library an have two issues that I could use some input on. 1) User often use the library to access their Hotmail accounts using Mozilla. The problem arises when there is an attached file. Even if the file is a known type (i.e. PDF) the attachment is not autom

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Loading LTSP-klients via Lilo ?

2002-05-03 Thread Peter Lister
> I am looking for a neat way to install Lilo and then have lilo to start > my Etherboot on the clients. From the Rom-O-Matic site I find the > lilo-option image but no info reg. Howto. Etherboot works fine from lilo. We use it every day. You have to tell us what the problem is before we can gi

[Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2002-05-03 Thread captpoutine
Rumour has it that RH is releasing 7.3 on May 6. I will be setting up a new LTSP server next week and was wondering what to expect if I try to set it up with the new distribution. How long before RH7.3 is oficcially supported? Regards, Gary _

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hotmail & Epson Printers

2002-05-03 Thread jam
Peter, I setup an entry in my /etc/pluggerrc file to map PDF files to acroread. The relevent lines look like this: application/pdf: pdf: Portable Document Format exits : acroread "$file" As for your printer question, sorry, I don't have an answer for that. Jim McQuillan [EMAI

[Ltsp-discuss] Netstation, a new linux distribution for thin clients

2002-05-03 Thread Francisco Castro
Hi All! I'm working on a linux distribution for x86 based thin clients, the current version support XDM, VNC, RDP, ICA, SSH & Telnet. It can boot from network with Etherboot or from floppy, hd or flash using syslinux and run from a root ramdisk, so there is not need for a NFS server (o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2002-05-03 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/05/2002 at 9:32 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/ltsp] wrote: >Rumour has it that RH is releasing 7.3 on May 6. I will be setting up a >new LTSP server next week and was wondering what to expect if I try to set >it up with the new distribution. Ho

[Ltsp-discuss] utmp/wtmp/sessreg

2002-05-03 Thread Jason Bechtel
LTSP users, admins, and developers, What about a more expansive, global, and adaptive approach to the utmp/wtmp/sessreg problem? See the following messages discussing prior solutions to this problem: Ken Godee: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=198655 Derek Dresser: http://

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Loading LTSP-klients via Lilo ?

2002-05-03 Thread Christoph Thiel
Hi, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:58:24PM +0200, Kim Kloster wrote: > >>I am looking for a neat way to install Lilo and then have lilo to start >>my Etherboot on the clients. >> > >>The boot-diskett is not useful at primary school as they would likely >>vanish. >> > > You c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Asus TUSI-M (sis900.o) problems solved

2002-05-03 Thread Michel Donais
> A local manufacturer is willing to make up a fanles micro-ATX > power supply, but insists that I have to specify the current > requirements for each voltage line (+12v -12v +5v +3.3v). > When I get the VIA C3 chip I will get angineering friends to > put ammeters between the powersupply and the b

[Ltsp-discuss] Beyond awareness... moving towards migration!]

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Nelson
Hello Folks, I think good things are happening in schools with the help of LTSP. I just sent this out to the school folks and Jim said it should go to the LTSP list too. One idea in the message below is for a software freedom day on July 4th. Take a look and let me know if you're interested in w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] linux distribution

2002-05-03 Thread John McCreesh
On Thu, 2 May 2002 21:21:19 -0700 (PDT) david scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A lot of good input so far on ideas for our linux > distro. Here hopefully are some anwsers. [snip] Seriously guys, the world is full of Linux distros that have started off full of good ideas and have fallen flat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hotmail & Epson Printers

2002-05-03 Thread John McCreesh
On Fri, 03 May 2002 09:21:30 -0400 Peter Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) The library uses some Epson InkJet printers. The Windoze driver has > a very useful feature that shows when the printer is out of ink. Is > anyone aware of a Linux utility that provides a similar functionality? No,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] linux distribution

2002-05-03 Thread jam
John, Well said :) Jim. On Fri, 3 May 2002, John McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002 21:21:19 -0700 (PDT) > david scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A lot of good input so far on ideas for our linux > > distro. Here hopefully are some anwsers. > > [snip] > > Seriously guys, the worl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hotmail & Epson Printers

2002-05-03 Thread Jeff Roberts
Yeah, and if its like most of these flimsy inkjets produced these days, the same light flashes to indicate a paper jam, i/o, power to the printer,etc, everything under the sun. On windows an informative, albeit usually buggy and annoying applets runs and tells the user exactly what the problem is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hotmail & Epson Printers

2002-05-03 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Peter Billson wrote: > 2) The library uses some Epson InkJet printers. The Windoze driver has a > very useful feature that shows when the printer is out of ink. Is anyone > aware of a Linux utility that provides a similar functionality? Peter, take a look at turboprint.de (e

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Standard LPP kernel

2002-05-03 Thread ken_yap
>Today I tried to boot network computers using >second standard LTSP kernel: >vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-lpp-6 instead of vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-6. >I expected a nice boot picture, but I could only >get the same text screen with a lot of lines of text. >I could see a new line though and it was: >/linuxrc: can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hotmail & Epson Printers

2002-05-03 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Peter, i can help with point 1.: netscapehas a plugin for adobe pdf, and if it doesn't you can download linux version (4.05) reader from www.adobe.com. attachments are dealt with by use of openoffice, that is, if you use k12ltsp distro. if not, createyour own links for netscape /

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] linux distribution

2002-05-03 Thread david scott
hello, that was a point purposfully not mentioned. Truth is, don't know that. It will take experimentation, and feedback. so far looks either debian or maybe a bsd ports style. Input? --- Dario Rapisardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I just have one question regarding the packagin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] linux distribution

2002-05-03 Thread david scott
The easiest way to say this, because a lot of the things that will happen are needed. Yes, it is true that a lot of distros start out with good ideas, however there are many reasons why a distro can fail. One of the biggest is financial backing. Linux is a set of great ideas, however, a lot of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] linux distribution

2002-05-03 Thread david scott
Sorry, last comment for now, history class teaches us an amazing thing, throught time, invention and reinvention has happend, in our time, people couldn't posibly understand that we would use more than 2 mb of memory, it was thoughtless. Microsoft at one point, why use it? When we have this won

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Asus TUSI-M (sis900.o) problems solved

2002-05-03 Thread John O'Gorman
Michel Donais wrote: > Here what I found as small power supply: > > http://www.enhanceusa.com/flexatx.htm > > It may be modified to expell heat and working fanless. How do you know that? - Did you download one of the PDFs and read it in there? John O'G > > Michel ___

[Ltsp-discuss] Download problem

2002-05-03 Thread vcare
Is the site is down , i am not able to download anything from the site. It gives me error. Regards K.D ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [E