[Ltsp-discuss] Running Firefox on the thin client

2007-08-19 Thread Damien Hull
Is there a way to run Firefox on the thin client? I did some searching and couldn't find any information. Well, sort of. It looks like you can install Firefox in /opt/ltsp/i386. However, there doesn't seem to be any way to run it. I hope I'm wrong about this. ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access to local hard disk.

2007-08-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:06:41PM -0600, Sherwood Botsford wrote: > I am trying to gain access to my local hard drive for swap, and > for installation of windows 2000 from stored images via NTFS-3g. Why not just ditch the Windows 2000 altogether? Now that you have Linux, you won't need it anym

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFTS on ltsp client

2007-08-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:20:12PM -0600, Sherwood Botsford wrote: > I tried that. However after chroot'ing into /opt/ltsp/i386 I > don't have a network. E.g: > > ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:6A:7C:D6 >inet addr:192.168.1.248 Bcast:192.168.1.255

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much bandwidth do I need?

2007-08-19 Thread jam
[snip] >     I'm hoping there is a way to improve the quality of youtube videos. The whole mythtv saga revisited You can't! In particular you can watch video GENERATED on the server on a client. The End. See http://www.linpvr.org/ James

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much bandwidth do I need?

2007-08-19 Thread Damien Hull
I would like to put Firefox and flash on the thin client. Is there a way to do that? I'll try that before I spend $$$ on extra hardware. Sherwood Botsford wrote: > Damien Hull wrote: > >> Here's what I have: >> >> * edubuntu 7.04 >> * AMD 64 bit processor >> o Can't remember

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much bandwidth do I need?

2007-08-19 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Damien Hull wrote: > Here's what I have: > > * edubuntu 7.04 > * AMD 64 bit processor > o Can't remember the exact numbers > * 2 gig ram > * Two network cards > o on board is for internet > o Other network card is for thin client network > * 10/100

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFTS on ltsp client

2007-08-19 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood Botsford wrote: > Try fdisk /dev/.static/dev/hda. > Can't open device. > > This implies that I don't understand the LTSP environment. > Hints appreciated. > > Answering my own post again. Plugged a usb drive into the client. Immediate message about sdb. "Curious," I thought, "Why b

[Ltsp-discuss] How much bandwidth do I need?

2007-08-19 Thread Damien Hull
Here's what I have: * edubuntu 7.04 * AMD 64 bit processor o Can't remember the exact numbers * 2 gig ram * Two network cards o on board is for internet o Other network card is for thin client network * 10/100 switch Problem * streaming music

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFTS on ltsp client

2007-08-19 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Jim Kronebusch wrote: > Getting late and I'm not sure I exactly follow what you are doing here, but > here is a > suggestion. > I know that feeling... > Assuming this is all being done on a Debian based server and probably LTSP5.. > Can you "sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Flash audio

2007-08-19 Thread Damien Hull
I fixed it. Unfortunately I can't remember what the fix was. I had to install lib flash something. Anyway it works. Krzysztof Chojnowski wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:09 -0800, Damien Hull wrote: > >> I think it's Pulse but don't quote me on that. I'll be doing some >> testing tonight. I

[Ltsp-discuss] Access to local hard disk.

2007-08-19 Thread Sherwood Botsford
I am trying to gain access to my local hard drive for swap, and for installation of windows 2000 from stored images via NTFS-3g. Groveling the site, I was referred to the troubleshooting guide for 4.2 I have succeeded in booting the client into a shell. (I can actually ssh to the client: That

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFTS on ltsp client

2007-08-19 Thread Peter Hartmann
i think it's your calling of ntfsmount. I do this to mount an existing ntsf partition (i'm guessing that's your goal here). ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/Macally2 -o force,silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8,no_def_opts,allow_other,user ntfsmount --help shows this: ---

[Ltsp-discuss] NFTS on ltsp client

2007-08-19 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Progress report: Synopsis: I want to run ntfs-3g on the client to allow me to do a windows install while the computer is in use as a linux terminal. 1. Installing onto the client space. A. Using aptitude I install ntfsprogs and nfts-3g on the server. B. I ran ldd against all the programs in