Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Redhat becomes Linux Microsoft

2003-11-17 Thread Ken Yap
Mmm, this is getting rather OT for LTSP. Could you guys take this to some other forum please? My take on the situation is that there are heaps of alternatives to RH, and the GPLed source remains GPL, so it's not a monopoly situation. --- This SF

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Docs

2003-11-17 Thread Varun
Hi Daniel, Your actual problem was that you did not know what you are looking at . When I first visited the website I knew what it was all about. You needed to have learned a little more about linux and diskless nodes. The website may not be the best site but I had no problem at all. O

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2003-11-17 Thread shogunx
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Timothy Legge wrote: > Scott > > Maybe. Where did you leave it? What works? What doesn't? What do you > want to work... Well... there is a checksum in the BIOS of the T1510 that checks the kernel being loaded via tftp. So I managed to get compaq to come off of an iso imag

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2003-11-17 Thread Timothy Legge
> Well... there is a checksum in the BIOS of the T1510 that checks the > kernel being loaded via tftp. So I managed to get compaq to come off of > an iso image of the original disk that came with the T1510, which has the > necessary kernel on it(2.0.35). I found a HOWTO on the T1500, very > simil

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Redhat becomes Linux Microsoft

2003-11-17 Thread bob
hazzmat wrote: Not that anyone should care what I think, but the longer I'm in this game, the more I respect the ability and accomplishments of the Debian Project. Most proprietary Linux distros have done something in last 4 or 5 years to unsettle their previously loyal users. Some have turned

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2003-11-17 Thread Timothy Legge
Scott Maybe. Where did you leave it? What works? What doesn't? What do you want to work... Tim > -Original Message- > From: shogunx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:29 PM > To: Timothy Legge > Cc: > Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] (no subject) > > Timothy, >

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2003-11-17 Thread shogunx
Timothy, Still interested in taking a crack at the Compaq T151 Scott On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Timothy Legge wrote: > > the terms are rebranded wyse 3360se's documentation available. > > terminalnow loads kernel via tftp, but refuses to execute citing: read > > image checksum doesn't match expected

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Term 150

2003-11-17 Thread shogunx
Kent, I just got the HDS machines in. Any tips on config? Scott On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Kent Schumacher wrote: > Is anyone using the LTSP Term 150 diskless linux LTSP workstation available > from Diskless Workstations? > > Any comments? I'm looking to use these to replace about 50 HDS viewstati

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Press Room at NYC LinuxWorld 2004

2003-11-17 Thread Gideon Romm
Is there any more information about this? The offer for the server and any other necessary hardware from us is still on the table. We're in New Rochelle, NY, which is just north of the city. We can easily bring as much as is needed. Cheers, -Gideon On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:51, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble running LTSP over multiple network segments

2003-11-17 Thread hazzmat
tcpdump -E tcp udp 68 will show bootps traffic from the server to the ws001, if such traffic is being sent out. we know the request comes in --but then what? If the image is not being sent out, I can't imagine wtf is causing it to not happen unless somehow the subnet is not yet allowed by tcpwra

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Timothy Legge
> The embedded nics are the worse. Sending some one a $20 NIC is one > thing, a pc is quite another. I normally don't work on any drivers that > I don't have a NIC for so unless I buy an ASUS board (unlikely) or > someone else writes the driver you are out of luck. > > The existence of the drive

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Redhat becomes Linux Microsoft

2003-11-17 Thread hazzmat
Any RHCE out there want to give your view on how all this affects those of us with RedHat certification? Would you recommend that others (who're interested in certification) look to RedHat, or wait and see what develops with Novell/SUSE ? Not that anyone should care what I think, but the longer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Redhat becomes Linux Microsoft

2003-11-17 Thread Stevn Bartley
WOW. I could not put it better than the subject above. I have been a RedHat linux supporter for about 5 years now. Until this morning With the announcement by RedHat to discontinue their retail product past the 9.0 version, I have been patiently waiting to see what shakes out of the mess.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble running LTSP over multiple network segments

2003-11-17 Thread Evan Hisey
Jeff- what does syslog show? Evan Jeff Self wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:14, hazzmat wrote: LTSP scripts modify /etc/hosts.allow to expose portmap and tftp to your ltsp network but it may only be allowing your first segment 10.5.112. and blocking the 10.5.107. segment. Sounds like DHCP is w

[Ltsp-discuss] Xandros

2003-11-17 Thread Tim Sutinen
Does anyone have experience with running Xandros as an LTSP server? tim --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound problems with WIN4LIN and RH9.0 Gnome on a LTSP client

2003-11-17 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:03:36 +1000 Philip Immoos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has any one had some experance with sound. As I am unable to get the > sound to work in a windows session under WIN4LIN. The LTSP client has > sound untill I start the WIN4LIN nnaudio. Then I loose all gnome > sounds. XM

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Redhat becomes Linux Microsoft

2003-11-17 Thread John McCreesh
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:52:56 -0800 Brook Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 11:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fedora is (Redhat quote) 'bleeding edge, not for production use'. > > My week of testing gave me 3 bugs compared with 0 over 5 years. > Not sure what ver

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble running LTSP over multiple network segments

2003-11-17 Thread hazzmat
I'm mystified too, but I'm pretty easily mystified. Can you tell if the request is being received by tftpd and the image is actually being sent out? tcpdump -E tcp udp 69 should capture the tftp request - I'm not sure about the sending of the image. You may have to do it again for ports 68 and 6

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Redhat becomes Linux Microsoft

2003-11-17 Thread Brandon Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An annual fee of $379 per machine to run Linux ??? Try Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org). It comes at the cost of downloading two ISOs and roasting them onto a CD-R. After that you install and upgrade packages whenever you feel like it over the Internet. Mind you, the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Redhat becomes Linux Microsoft

2003-11-17 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brook Humphrey wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 06:07 pm, Brandon Mercer wrote: mandrake is a great starter distro... they are not well suited for production environments. Brandon There are allot of us using mandrkae for servers that could very easily prove you wrong. Take a look at ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble running LTSP over multiple network segments

2003-11-17 Thread Jeff Self
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:14, hazzmat wrote: > LTSP scripts modify /etc/hosts.allow to expose portmap and tftp to your > ltsp network but it may only be allowing your first segment 10.5.112. > and blocking the 10.5.107. segment. > > Sounds like DHCP is working --after all it assigns server gateway

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-17 Thread Fred Aswad
It will work fine. Follow the same instructions that are found for Mandrake 8.1: http://ltsp.org/documentation/mandrake_ltsp.html Fred Aswad - Original Message - From: "Varun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:13 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] LTS

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Brazil moves towards open software

2003-11-17 Thread jam
Ken, I know for certain that they are using LTSP at the telecentros. Last I heard, they have 72 centers with 20 workstations in each. I met several of the poeple involved with Telecentros when I was in Brazil back in June. Jim. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Ken Yap wrote: > http://apnews.excite.com/a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble running LTSP over multiple network segments

2003-11-17 Thread hazzmat
hazzmat wrote: LTSP scripts modify /etc/hosts.allow to expose portmap and tftp to your ltsp network but it may only be allowing your first segment 10.5.112. and blocking the 10.5.107. segment. Oops I meant the other way around: Blocking the 10.5.112. segment. -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble running LTSP over multiple network segments

2003-11-17 Thread hazzmat
LTSP scripts modify /etc/hosts.allow to expose portmap and tftp to your ltsp network but it may only be allowing your first segment 10.5.112. and blocking the 10.5.107. segment. Sounds like DHCP is working --after all it assigns server gateway and eth0 settings to the workstation. But the proces

[Ltsp-discuss] Brazil moves towards open software

2003-11-17 Thread Ken Yap
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031116/D7URSKHO0.html I have a hunch those Telecentros in São Paulo are running LTSP. Certainly a search of "telecentro LTSP" on Google turned up hits about Porto Alegre and I recalled Jim did some proselyting there. Can a Paulistano reader confirm if those termi

[Ltsp-discuss] Trouble running LTSP over multiple network segments

2003-11-17 Thread Jeff Self
I've successfully got LTSP working on one of my servers. I can connect a PC to the same switch and boot up with either a boot disk or using PXE. But I am unable to get a thin client to work that is sitting on another network segment. I've put a dhrelay on a PC on the other network segment. When I t

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-17 Thread Varun
Hello, I have just got Mandrake 9.2. Will ltsp 3. install ? Howto configure ltsp on Mandrake 9.2 ? Thanks Varun --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer fro

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Machintosh clients?

2003-11-17 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
grendel wrote: Is it possible to have Machintosh clients for in a LTSP structure? Thanks, Enrico I only know about 68k macs - the "real old" stuff. AFAIK, in Germany macintoshes are not as popular as in US, so I only got some old ones. They will run linux (some of them), and even X is claimed to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Using LTSP to Cold backup windoze boxen

2003-11-17 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Peter Rundle wrote: Now I'm asking for some ideas to further "automate" this process. It would be really cool to be able to control whether the PC boots local or net from the server end rather than at the PC. I guess some configuring in dhcp or tftp might be the answer? Any suggestions? There

[Ltsp-discuss] Sound problems with WIN4LIN and RH9.0 Gnome on a LTSP client

2003-11-17 Thread Philip Immoos
Has any one had some experance with sound. As I am unable to get the sound to work in a windows session under WIN4LIN. The LTSP client has sound untill I start the WIN4LIN nnaudio. Then I loose all gnome sounds. XMMS still works though?? ---

[Ltsp-discuss] TEST

2003-11-17 Thread Philip Immoos
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[Ltsp-discuss] Using LTSP to Cold backup windoze boxen

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Rundle
G'day, Following up from Kent's posting about accessing the local hard disk and his desire to be able to restore his classroom PC's using LTSP, I've had a bit of a play around and have managed to get LTSP to do this. It's so simple yet if any Sys admins out there have ever had the (dis)pleasure

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Timothy Legge
> Eh he he, the "card" is on-board my new Dell inspiron, so you want me to > send you the card? Hmmm, well after considering it for a nano second or > two.. nah I don't think so, might hang onto my new toy for a while > just the same thanks. But hey, I do understand your position re your > los

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and keyboard trouble...

2003-11-17 Thread Serge Tiunov
Hello Stephane, Here's what happens: The server has an X server of its own. It is its config that you find in /etc/X11. The /opt/ltsp/i386/etc tree doesn't have a ready-made XF86Config-4 file. It would prevent usage of different hardware in one system. Instead, a new XF86Config-4 is generated ea

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Machintosh clients?

2003-11-17 Thread grendel
Is it possible to have Machintosh clients for in a LTSP structure? Thanks, Enrico --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click h

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is LTSP?

2003-11-17 Thread Fionn Cleary
> Now, a couple of questions: > > 1. What kind of hardware do I need at the workstation end? > > As I said, we have Sparc's. If we have to replace them by PC's we won't > save as much. I guess we will still save because we'll be able to go for > low-end PCs. > > Can etherboot work on a Spar

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and keyboard trouble...

2003-11-17 Thread Stephane Boireau
Hi, I didn't get any answer, but I see that the personal mail address I putted was wrong. Were there any answer? I apologize for troubles... Thank you very much. PS: It is curious that when I hit Reply to a message the "To:" field isn't list address. It would be better don't you think? -- St

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Otherwise I'd put a ltsp (/opt/ltsp/i386) install on the HD (150 odd Mb) and grub/lilo from that when needed. Eh, Oh ok kinda didn't follow what you meant there but now I got it. That's not a bad idea, kinda like a Claytons diskless workstation. Doesn't really boot from the network but is still c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Broadcom 440 10/100 ether-bootable?

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Rundle
If there is enough interest in this card it could be supported in Etherboot. These days (after spending a small fortune on NICs) I define enough interest as someone willing to send me a card). Eh he he, the "card" is on-board my new Dell inspiron, so you want me to send you the card? Hmmm, well