Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sis on board video cards

2004-08-27 Thread stan
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:11:57PM +0800, C.Lascano wrote: > are sis on board video cards compatible with ltsp4.1 under x.org? > tried this last weekend with LTSP 4.1, and had to set teh X server to VESA to make it work. Byt there has been some discusion on the list about a way to make this wor

[Ltsp-discuss] Dual headed clients?

2004-08-17 Thread stan
Anyone have experience buildign clients with 2 displays? I'm thinking of "single session" clients with just one keyboard/mouse, but 2 video cards, where teh mouse just moves from one (below) to thew other (aboave) dispaly. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserv

[Ltsp-discuss] Sugestions for clients?

2004-08-17 Thread stan
I'm thinking about using some og the (perhaps small form factor) motherboards with integrated video, and BIC to build a dozen or so clients. I prefere AMD processors, but would consider Intel. Anyone have any sugestions as to machines that look like they would fill this nill? I'm thinking I can g

[Ltsp-discuss] FW: Intel 82865G graphics card?

2004-08-16 Thread stan
First, thnaks to all the helpfule people that allowed me to get this proof of concept setup over the weekend. Now, I have one remaining issue, which I'm reposting below, since I suspect it got lost in all the other mails I was sending to the list :-) If anyone cna give me a clue as to how to addr

[Ltsp-discuss] Intel 82865G graphics card?

2004-08-16 Thread stan
First, thnaks to all the helpfule people that allowed me to get this proof of concept setup over the weekend. Now, I have one remaining issue, which I'm reposting below, since I suspect it got lost in all the other mails I was sending to the list :-) If anyone cna give me a clue as to how to add

[Ltsp-discuss] PXE and Intel EtherExpress Pro100's

2004-08-15 Thread stan
Do I need to do anything to set up these cards to attemp PXE boot? I've been prototyping this weekend on new hardware that has this enable via the BIOS. But I plan on deploying (as clients) some old HP Vectra P2's with these network cards, and the BIOS'es on this amchines know nothing about bootin

[Ltsp-discuss] DNS & Packe fowarding from clients?

2004-08-15 Thread stan
I'm seting up a system where the server will have 2 network interfaces. The "real" routeable network, and a 192.168.x.x network for the LTSP clients. At least during devlopment and deploymnet, I'd like to have the clients able to connect to/from various other machines on the "real" network. Loooks

[Ltsp-discuss] Intel 82865G graphics card?

2004-08-15 Thread stan
I'm working on a test setup this weekend. All the machines are identical (server, _and_ clinets). They are all brand new HP/Compaq boxes. Yhey have an Intel 82856G graphics card. The pci_scan code is not detecting this card as supported by XF*^4, but it is. How can I add this card to /etc/vidlist,

[Ltsp-discuss] Custom workstation startup script?

2004-08-14 Thread stan
Now that I've (almost) got the "proof of concept" machines working the way I want them, I'm starting to think a bit about the actual deploable systems. What they need to do, insteed of presenting a ?dm login screen, is as folows: 1. Sart X 2. ssh/rsh to a workstation specific remote Sun box, and

[Ltsp-discuss] Progress, but still not quite there

2004-08-14 Thread stan
OK, I figured out that ithe "tsize not supported" was a fatal error (at least for PXE booted machines). I'm not quite cerain why, but I determined that using the aftpd daemon (in Debain) got me past that hurdle. As a matter of fact it got me a long way twoard succes. However, I'm still not quite

[Ltsp-discuss] TFTP server does not support the tsize option

2004-08-14 Thread stan
I'm trying to do a "[roof of concept" test for a posible ltsp application. I'm using some fairly ne HP/Compaq boxes that support PXE. I've configured one of them as Debian unstable, and installed lstp version 4.1 I have the client box getting an address from dhcp, using tftp to get the PXE boot lo

[Ltsp-discuss] sample dhcpd config file for 4.1?

2004-08-14 Thread stan
I'm having trouble with ltspcfg from 4.1. If I run it before installint dhcpd, or tftpd, it simply says I need to add the packeage. If I add the package (Debian, so I use apt-get), then it says the service is already runing even though it's not, since the /etc/dhcpd.conf file installed by apt-get

[Ltsp-discuss] Problems getting 4.1 set up

2004-08-14 Thread stan
I've been playing with 4.0 for a day or so, and I never did quite get it working completly. I ecided to swithc to 4.1 today, so I rebuilt my test server (Debian unstable) completly. Then I downloaded ltsp utils , installed them and used ltspadmin to install of the 4.1 packages. Unfortunately I se

[Ltsp-discuss] FW: Where to find kernel for clients?

2004-08-14 Thread stan
I'm trying to work through a "proof of concepte" if lstp. I'v managed to get the linet to aquire aa IP address from the server using dhcp. Next it tries to tftp the kernel. Wgere can I get an apropriate kerbel for the clients? Or. do I have to build one? If so, where can I get a sample .config fi

[Ltsp-discuss] beginer question

2004-08-07 Thread stan
I was looking over the LSTP web site today, and I have, what is proabaly a FAQ, but i did not seem to find the answer. Seting up the srver side seems well documented, and I have a good basic understnading of what to do there. But, I can't seem to find a bootable floppy. or ISO iamge for a client.