Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Booting from the local Harddisk (fwd)

2001-11-16 Thread John F Cuzzola
LILO prompt and away you go. If you're interested I can explain the loadlin way of doing it too. (It's a little easier but doesn't always work with all network cards). Best of luck :) > --- Original Message --- > From: John F Cuzzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PR

Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Booting from the local Harddisk (fwd)

2001-11-14 Thread John F Cuzzola
s fairly involved but once you do a couple of them it takes only a few minutes per station). Change your runlevel back to 5 & reboot without the floppy. You should see the familiar LILO prompt and away you go. If you're interested I can explain the loadlin way of doing it too. (It's

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Booting from the local Harddisk

2001-11-13 Thread John F Cuzzola
*** We have two schools booting off of Hard Disks done two different ways. Once school we put a lilo boot loader on the hard drive and use: make bin32/.lilo for the etherboot image. At our second school we have a few Wind$ze legacy programs that are still needed so we dual boot the system. We

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Porting to Redhat 7.2

2001-10-28 Thread John F Cuzzola
> XDM: too many retransmissions > > I looked a little closer at my server setup and noticed that it is not > listening on port 177 (the xdmcp port according to /etc/services). I don't > know how to make the system listen on this port. Do I need to further edit > xinetd? Please advise. ***

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Apps question

2001-10-14 Thread John F Cuzzola
a URL to the list. I've had the same problems described above with Star Office and it's even worse with Corel's Photopaint. Since exe_remote was put into place those problems ahve appeared to go away. > > Thanks in advance. > > regards > duan > > Joh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Apps question

2001-10-13 Thread John F Cuzzola
> John, > > Just wondering, what do you have installed locally on the > workstation, in terms of Linux? Anything? *** We have some decent client machines (Pentium 266-350 w/64-128MB ram) so we run almost everything locally. We have a wide range of programs such as Star Office & CorelPhotoPaint

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Apps question

2001-10-13 Thread John F Cuzzola
> It is hard to make the workstation see its locak drives because the X > windows isnt really running locally the X portion is being fed to the > workstation from the servers X installation any hardware / software on the > server is fully accessable as if you are on the server its self. > *** We

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to use local disks?

2001-10-07 Thread John F Cuzzola
*** You'll have to create the hda,hda1,hda2,hda3 (etc) devices in the /dev directory of the diskless client. For example I'm using ltsp 2.07 so I would: cd /tftpboot/lts/ltsroot/dev mknod hda b 3 0 mknod hda1 b 3 1 mknod hda2 b 3 2 etc... (for each partition you want to have access to) That

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X Starts, but no login window on workstation

2001-09-25 Thread John F Cuzzola
> > xdm-config > # commented out as per directions > # DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 > > lts.conf > SERVER = my server ip address *** There's another file you need to check:/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess look for a line that reads something like * #Any host can obtain a login window Make sure

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] network table overflow / graphics card

2001-09-24 Thread John F Cuzzola
*** I had a similiar problem a while back. It turns out for me it was an IRQ conflict with another device. You might want to try to reconfigure your NIC to use a different IRQ. That might do it. On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > Hi, > > I have a _very_ strange problem. I first

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] are there any server configuration examples?

2001-09-19 Thread John F Cuzzola
> > Can anybody give me configuration examples for terminal servers (>10 > clients) ? *** Dual pentium 1000 with 4Gigs ram *** lts_core 2.07 *** ICEwm *** Configured to run local apps: The majority of software runs on the client if it can handle it. For those more demanding programs (Star Office

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Yet another question about which X environment to use

2001-09-19 Thread John F Cuzzola
*** I would have to agree. My first attempt was with gnome then kde - both look pretty but the amount of resources they used on the server was enormous. Not to mention it was difficult to lock dowm. Ultimately I went with ICE. It has a few quirks and is not as "pretty" but it looks good, extremel

[Ltsp-discuss] Many Thanks

2001-09-18 Thread John F Cuzzola
I'd like to thank all those in the ltsp-discuss & k12linux groups that took the time to answer my questions. Because of your help we were successful in piloting two ltsp labs in two different schools. Both serving at any given time 30 or so clients. There has been no significant problems and ever