[Ltsp-discuss] Enbd + usb floppy?

2002-07-24 Thread Francis Avila
Mind you, I haven't even tried using enbd yet, but I was wondering if anyone has anything to say on how enbd works with usb floppy drives. My theory is that it _should_ work (provided usb floppy drives are exported by the kernel as transparently as ide floppy drives [1]), but before I go wasting

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Evgeny Limarenko
> > I have followed a long thread of argument on partition scheme on another > list but no final conclusion accepted by most participants was drawn. My > application is for Terminal Server. > There can't be good scheme suited for everyone. There can be special cases when you can use a separa

[Ltsp-discuss] Mp3 ve klipler

2002-07-24 Thread Mert Kemal
JetMp3 Türkiye'de ilk kez uygulanan bir sistemi hayata geçirdi. http://www.jetmp3.com Bu sistemle artýk Ýstediðiniz MP3 leri ister tek tek isterseniz albümler halinde ve birkaç dakika içinde sanki disketten bilgisayarýnýza yükler gibi süratle indirebilirsiniz. Turk ve Yabancý albümler, klipler

[Ltsp-discuss] FontPath

2002-07-24 Thread Adrian D'Costa
Hi, I am trying to install LTSP on my home systems. My server is a PII233, 64MB ram, 8BG hdd. I am using XDM and KDE. I am trying to setup ICEWM instead. Workstation is a IBM PS/2 486, 8 MB RAM, RL2000 NIC. I know I need more ram but I cannot get that type here. The workstation gets the ip

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Error XF86config continues

2002-07-24 Thread anyaddress
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 23:08, Rafael Araujo wrote: > I still have not been able to solve this. > > Please help :) As it is booting the desktop half this might be badly configured gdm /xdm /kdm -config file. As I remember I messed around with one of the last entries in gdm.conf (I think the se

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution (fwd)

2002-07-24 Thread Ken Barber
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04:31 am, Adrian D'Costa wrote: > I wish I could take your advice, but this client of mine has already gone > into say Linux or nothing. Have to say my prayers. Adrian, it really hurts to hear myself saying this, but the best thing you can do for your client (and your

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:46:47 +0800, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > Thanks for your advice. > > One further question > > I suppose "/home, /opt, /u, /data, etc" in separate partitions, not one > big partition. If I am wrong please correct me. If in such an arrangemen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread jam
I sure wouldn't put /etc on a separate partition. The problem is that the fstab file is in /etc, so the system isn't going to know how to mount the filesystems, because it can't get at /etc/fstab until /etc is mounted, and /etc won't get mounted until it can read /etc. Also, the /etc/inittab fil

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Bryan Buchanan
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I sure wouldn't put /etc on a separate partition. The > > > > I suppose "/home, /opt, /u, /data, etc" in separate partitions, not one I wasn't suggesting /etc, the "etc" above is "and any others". You're right, /etc is a bad idea, a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Don Pettengill
Hard disk partitioning is a controversial issue and everyone has their own ideas. A good partition can enhance security and reliability at the expense of maintenance. So "it depends". My own system has separate partitions for /home, /tmp, and /boot. This handles my own particular conce

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bryan, Thanks for your advice. One further question At 10:22 AM 7/25/2002 +1000, Bryan Buchanan wrote: >It's exactly the same. If you've partitioned with, say /home, /opt, /u, >/data or whatever (as a substitute for D:) on a separate partition, the >install process will ask if you want to r

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Bryan Buchanan
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:25, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Evgeny, > > Thanks for your advice. > > My critical question is in case OS crashed how to recover the data. > > In Windows world I make a D partition for data and C for OS. In case of > crash I just reinstall the OS. My data are still ther

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Evgeny, Thanks for your advice. My critical question is in case OS crashed how to recover the data. In Windows world I make a D partition for data and C for OS. In case of crash I just reinstall the OS. My data are still there. How about in Linux world ??? At 03:38 PM 7/24/2002 +0200,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Your advice noted with thanks Stephen At 09:24 AM 7/24/2002 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, >as said before there is NO perfect partiotion sheme for everybody. If you >want to be on the save side make /boot about 50 mb, swap 256 mb, 512 mb or >even higher (depends completely on YOUR r

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ken, Lot of thanks for your advice and time. The advice to be sought is for LTSP server. I will come back after test. Thanks Stephen At 07:36 PM 7/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Stephen, > >Here is what I am recommending in the How-To that I am currently writing. It >assumes that you already

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:43:12 -0400, "Jason Bechtel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > >> I guess you could use the HDs for that and for swap. I > >> don't understand what you're asking with regard to "the > >> best way" though. Do you want details of how to set it all > >> up? As far as

[Ltsp-discuss] Porting to Conectiva 7.0/8.0

2002-07-24 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
Since I needed it, I've gone thru the porting_guid.txt and made some changes to the existing conectiva.sh and added the links conectiva-7.0.sh and conectiva-8.0.sh to it. It works for 7.0 and couldn't test it for 8.0 now but I think it would. Is there any interest in reviewing my changes and updat

[Ltsp-discuss] Access and Log problems

2002-07-24 Thread Alexander Eduardo Belck
I'm trying ltsp for the 1st time Eaven my distro (Conective 7.0) not showing up as supporte i've been able to generate apropriate templates, run ltsp_initialize, generate a boot disk for my test workstation/nic and got all needed service to run. 1st try: When I tried to boot the workstation (ws001

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

2002-07-24 Thread Jason Bechtel
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:56:11 +0530 > From: "Adrian D'Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > I am being assigned a project for a school. They have a >> > tight budget. >> > Right now the are on a windows 2000 server and 28 nodes. >> > The server is P III 800 Mhz, 64 mb ram, 40 GB hdd and a >> > D

[Ltsp-discuss] As of LTSP, version 2.09pre2, you no longer have to specify a particular kernel to load

2002-07-24 Thread John Murf
Kinda trivial but I like to know why. What's the trick to not typing the the whole file name. "/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp"; just gets me TFTP error 1 (file not found). So it's "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.18-ltsp-1"; every time. :-) -- John Murf --- This sf.ne

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Ltsp-discuss digest, Vol 1 #694 - 26 msgs

2002-07-24 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Dear John Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:50:28 GMT you wrote about booting x-terminal from cdrom >I would like to implement an LTSP >system at my company (which mainly >consists of Windows desktops), but=20 >there is already a DHCP server running >on a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Michael Marschall
It also avoids the situation where your system becomes more or less unuseable due to some log in /var filling up the filesystem. Michael On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jim Wildman wrote: > The other important directory to have its own partition is /var. If a > machine crashes, there will be open files i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Jim Wildman
The other important directory to have its own partition is /var. If a machine crashes, there will be open files in /var. Best to have it on a separate partition that is easily fsck-able and easily replaceable. If I've got the space, I'll go for a gig of /var. It also reduces some of the denial

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cant print from linux

2002-07-24 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
is lpd running on your server? On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I've now setup 2 LTSP networks (at home and work) I went through the instructions >for setting up an LTSP print server last night, and got it working, BUT ONLY WHEN >PRINTING FROM WINDOZ :( > > If I try and cre

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:07:01 +0200 (CEST), Alessandro Selli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il giorno Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Evgeny Limarenko così ha scritto: > [snipped] > |/boot should be of small size like 32Mb. Swap can be big enough, > |something like twice an amount of RAM. The rest is for /. >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:28:54 -0500, "Jason A. Pattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this is slightly off the wall, but 28 40GB hard drives aren't > going to fit in a single server machine. Why not leave them in the > clients, inform the users that they can never turn their computers off

[Ltsp-discuss] Error XF86config continues

2002-07-24 Thread Rafael Araujo
I still have not been able to solve this. Please help :) Ok, here is the situation: I have 3 workstations. The first two workstations are able to startup, connect, and I get the logon screen (I am using mandrake 8.1, by the way). People can logon, and decide if they want to use Windowmaker, KDE

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SUSE 8.0 will not load workstation

2002-07-24 Thread John Karns
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Rock s said: > John, > Thanks for info but I do not have dhcp installed or running just bootp, so I > have not clue why when it starts loading kernel it wants to get another IP > address. I have looked in logs and can not find out why it is doing this. > Has to be a firewal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Workstation loading unsuccessfully...tftpd error??

2002-07-24 Thread Jørgen Kristensen
> Wei Pin wrote: > > Hi, > I'm just trying to install the LTSP v3.0. in RedHat 7.3 now (and 7.2 before). But >the problem i faced is > the workstation stop at this stage: > Me:192.168.0.1, Server: 192.168.0.254, Gateway 192.168.0.254 > Loading 192.168.0.254:/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-lpp-6.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il giorno Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Evgeny Limarenko così ha scritto: |From: Evgeny Limarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: Alessandro Selli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:13:29 +0200 |Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive | |Well, from my expirience I can say that actua

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] busybox source code

2002-07-24 Thread jam
As I recall, I had a problem getting dhcpcd to return root-path and a few other parameters that I needed. dhclient made it really easy, so I stuck with it. I suppose I could go back and visit dhcpcd again, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything that I want to. Jim.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] busybox source code

2002-07-24 Thread Jason A. Pattie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dave, > >we're not using the dhclient from busybox. We're using >the dhclient from the ISC dhcp package. I'm pretty sure >it is ISC version 2.0. I didn't use the ISC 3.0 code, because >the dhclient is about 550kb, compared to about 120kb in the 2.0 >version. > I'm cur

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution (fwd)

2002-07-24 Thread Jason A. Pattie
Adrian D'Costa wrote: >>And what do they use those scanners and CD-ROMs for? I know LTSP is >> >> > >No idea. The problem with them is that some one comes and tell them that each system >needs a scanner, printer and a cdrom they buy it. > > > >>improving all the time, but I don't think it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

2002-07-24 Thread Jason A. Pattie
I know this is slightly off the wall, but 28 40GB hard drives aren't going to fit in a single server machine. Why not leave them in the clients, inform the users that they can never turn their computers off, and setup network RAID with each workstation participating as a node in the RAID arra

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Metaframe/Citrix and LTSP

2002-07-24 Thread Jeff Roberts
We do the same thing here, it works pretty well for us too. -Jeff > Hey all, I just wanted to send out a brief intro to a way we are using > Windows-Only applications on our LTSP server. > > We have an NT server running Citrix/Metaframe. We also installed the > free linux Citrix client rpm p

[Ltsp-discuss] Metaframe/Citrix and LTSP

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
Hey all, I just wanted to send out a brief intro to a way we are using Windows-Only applications on our LTSP server. We have an NT server running Citrix/Metaframe. We also installed the free linux Citrix client rpm package onto the LTSP server. We were then able to create, for example, a short

[Ltsp-discuss] booting x-terminal from cdrom

2002-07-24 Thread John Helms
I would like to implement an LTSP system at my company (which mainly consists of Windows desktops), but there is already a DHCP server running on an NT server. So I was wondering if anyone had put all of the x-terminal system (kernel, root filesystem, etc) onto a bootable cdrom. Everything wou

[Ltsp-discuss] busybox source code

2002-07-24 Thread David Robson
Does anyone know where I can get the source code for the version of busybox used by LTSP?? I am particularly interested in the included dhclient TIA Dave --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Evgeny Limarenko
Well, from my expirience I can say that actually you can use /boot, swap and /. Three partitions is enough. The more partitions you create, the less flexible your system is. Usually it meens that you can run out of free space on /opt or /usr ot /tmp or /home or /var filesystems while you have plen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Conectiva 7.0/8.0 distr

2002-07-24 Thread Felipe Scuciatto dos Santos
Well, it´s not very dificult! If you want LTSP runing All you need to do is: 1 - cd /opt/ltsp/install_scripts 2 - vi install_rpm.sh Then look for the Conectiva distro there (it´s an "elif"). Now you need to change the TEMPLATE_FILE variable .. Change the value for conectiva.sh Just like t

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP ... OK TFTP............ and nothing happens

2002-07-24 Thread Joey Officer
Also, add a line like the following to hosts.allow in.tftpd: 192.168.0. then save and close and try again... joey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jesper Berth Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Lt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cant print from linux

2002-07-24 Thread rob apodaca
Have you checked http://www.linuxprinting.org/ ? There is tons of help with printing there. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:02:30 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've now setup 2 LTSP networks (at home and work) I went through the instructions >for setting up an LTSP print server last night, an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

2002-07-24 Thread Adrian D'Costa
> > > > I am being assigned a project for a school. They have a tight budget. > > Right now the are on a windows 2000 server and 28 nodes. > > The server is P III 800 Mhz, 64 mb ram, 40 GB hdd and a DSL connection > > using a usb modem. > > > > The nodes P III, 450 Mhz, 64 mb ram, 40 GB HDD. So

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution (fwd)

2002-07-24 Thread Adrian D'Costa
> Just a thought - > > Start with setting one of the workstations up as the server with one or two > workstations booting from floppy > > Progress to getting it working the way you want including software and then > switch > the HD to the PIII 800 - in fact the difference between the PIII 450 and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution

2002-07-24 Thread Adrian D'Costa
> > > > I am being assigned a project for a school. They have a > > tight budget. > > Right now the are on a windows 2000 server and 28 nodes. > > The server is P III 800 Mhz, 64 mb ram, 40 GB hdd and a > > DSL connection > > using a usb modem. > > Yeah, the server RAM will need to be *much* high

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best solution (fwd)

2002-07-24 Thread Adrian D'Costa
> > Check carefully what your users want to do. Make sure you have a Linux > equivalent for *all* their applications. I'm willing to bet there will > be a few 'must have' applications that are Windoze only. You probably > need to reserve one PC as a Windoze ghetto just to run those apps. Put > it

[Ltsp-discuss] Linux utility for configuring 3Coms' 3c509 NICs

2002-07-24 Thread Alessandro Selli
I stated several times on this mailing list that in order to configure the internal registers of 3Coms' 3c509 network cards, it was necessary to download an executable that would only run under DoS. I found out this is not true. It does exist a utility that runs under GNU/Linux that can change th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Sandro Noted. Thanks for your advice. Stephen At 10:36 AM 7/24/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Il giorno Wed, 24 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] così ha scritto: > >|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >|To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >|<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >|Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:24:44 +0530 >|Subject: Re: [Ltsp

[Ltsp-discuss] Xserver problem

2002-07-24 Thread Joseph Syjuco
im installing ltsp and the problem is when i start the client and start xwindows it just gives me a gray window with my mouse pointer (x) and nothing more. netstat -an | grep xdmcp shows nothing ps -ax | grep kdm shows its running kdm i have the inittab entry for running display manager x:5:resp

[Ltsp-discuss] Workstation loading unsuccessfully...tftpd error??

2002-07-24 Thread Wei Pin
Hi, I'm just trying to install the LTSP v3.0. in RedHat 7.3 now (and 7.2 before). But the problem i faced is the workstation stop at this stage: Me:192.168.0.1, Server: 192.168.0.254, Gateway 192.168.0.254 Loading 192.168.0.254:/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-lpp-6...   I have configure my /e

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il giorno Wed, 24 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] così ha scritto: |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:24:44 +0530 |Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive | |Generaly it is advisable to put as many partitions as p

[Ltsp-discuss] cant print from linux

2002-07-24 Thread ltsp
Hi, I've now setup 2 LTSP networks (at home and work) I went through the instructions for setting up an LTSP print server last night, and got it working, BUT ONLY WHEN PRINTING FROM WINDOZ :(   If I try and create a printer under any of my linux machines (both ltsp and main server) the printe