[Ltsp-discuss] screen resolution through KVM switch

2009-01-09 Thread Rob Owens
I'm just posting my experience in case anybody else is fighting the same battle I just fought... I just spent a lot of time troubleshooting some video resolution issues. No matter what I did, I couldn't get my 17" CRT monitor to display better than 800x600 resolution. I tried manually setting

[Ltsp-discuss] feature request: specify apt proxy in ltsp-build-client

2009-01-09 Thread Rob Owens
I use a proxy for apt on my systems. It's called apt-cacher-ng. It creates a local debian and ubuntu repository based on all the packages that my network downloads. During a system installation, when apt is being configured I specify: http://myproxy:3142 when the installer asks for my prox

[Ltsp-discuss] gPXE boot disk works, etherboot doesn't

2009-01-09 Thread Rob Owens
I was trying out some old P3 and P2 machines as thin clients and found some strange inconsistencies in booting. The P3 machines would not boot properly with the Thinstation universal boot cd (I believe it uses etherboot code). They would, however, boot with a gPXE boot cd from www.rom-o-matic.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP address request problem WORK AROUND

2009-01-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Fri, 09 Jan 2009, Lars Andersson wrote: > If this is for any help for you we found a work around. After hours of > wiresharking and reconfiguring of dhcpd we decided to try another dhcp > server. We put a Hardy Heron server with dhcp3-server beside our Intrepid > Ibex server and after that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP address request problem WORK AROUND

2009-01-09 Thread Lars Andersson
> I have a show stopper problem with my LTSP installation. I run Ubuntu > 8.10 with Edubuntu Add on. Sometimes my clients doesn't seem to get an > ip address from the server. Usually I can boot about 4 to 5 clients > with no problems at all but when I turn on some more clients they hang > when