[Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Boot Ideas

2006-04-14 Thread Ben Green
We are trying to get our suite of laptops ready for summer outings, the ones details here: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/SuccessStories#Bristol_Wireless_and_Psand_net_M I have been working at trying to get a new kernel for these machines. This started as an idea to build most of t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-28 Thread christoph
> The problem is, of course, that your raid controller might not support > it. And the differences aren't that great (as you can see), so it's not > really worth spending money on (however, if the RAID controllers are > much more expensive than plain controllers, and you have a decent CPU, > go fo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-27 Thread Tom Allison
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: If I am right in my understanding of raid levels 4 - 80GB drives in such a configuration will give me 160GB of storage space, with the other 160GB of the drives being used in a mirrored capacity right? I think that's right. If you have the option money-wise and th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-26 Thread Brian Chase
Liam, Stay AWAY from Promise RAID controllers. Sure they are the cheapest, but they are hit and miss with Linux. 3Ware is the way to go for Linux compatibility out of the box, embedded Linux kernel support for all distro's of Linux. Can't say that about Promise. If you haven't already bought

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-26 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
> I would like to get a Promise IDE raid controller, either the 4 or 6 > channel version, haven't decided yet. I was going to put on it 4 - 80 > GB EIDE hard drives with 7200 rpm and 8MB cache each. I would use these > in a raid 0+1 or raid 1+0 configuration. It is my understanding that > th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-26 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 26. November 2004 15:53 schrieb Liam Marshall: > I would like to get a Promise IDE raid controller, either the 4 or 6 > channel version, haven't decided yet. I was going to put on it 4 - 80 > GB EIDE hard drives with 7200 rpm and 8MB cache

[Ltsp-discuss] Hard Drive Upgrade Quandry

2004-11-26 Thread Liam Marshall
we are skating on the edge of being too low on hard drive space. With careful management of the ltsp environment I think we could make do but there are several reasons I don't want to. 1. First, in most cases I am a believer in more is better, hardware wise. What we have for hard drive spac

[Ltsp-discuss] Hard drive access

2004-05-12 Thread Mauricio Cuenca
Hello, Can anyone please tell me what is the easiest way to access the local workstation's resources usign K12LTSP 4.0.1 ??? TIA, Mauricio Cuenca www.sisfo.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Le

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard drive

2002-02-27 Thread Roger Whittaker
Thanks - I didn't realise that. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Roger, > > The floppy image has a boot loader that only knows > how to load from floppy. It won't work from hard > disk. > > I think that using the lilo image is the best way to > go, if booting from hard disk. > > J

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard drive

2002-02-27 Thread jam
Roger, The floppy image has a boot loader that only knows how to load from floppy. It won't work from hard disk. I think that using the lilo image is the best way to go, if booting from hard disk. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Roger Whittaker wrote: > Or couldn't you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard drive

2002-02-27 Thread admiralcascade
> Does anyone know if it's possibe to boot LTSP from the hard disk, instead of > boot ROMS or floppy? If anyone has any ideas it'd be great to hear from you. We use LILO at school. You can get the image from rom-o-matic and use it like: [---snip---] other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows #82559er fuer Leh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard drive

2002-02-27 Thread Roger Whittaker
Or couldn't you just dd the floppy boot disk to /dev/hda? On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Adi S wrote: > > it easy, just install dos then put etherboot rom for dos (download from > rom-o-matic.net). next you run the rom automaticaly from autoexec.bat > i've try this, and it is faster than use floppy. > > O

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hard drive

2002-02-27 Thread Adi S
it easy, just install dos then put etherboot rom for dos (download from rom-o-matic.net). next you run the rom automaticaly from autoexec.bat i've try this, and it is faster than use floppy. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Stephen Berry wrote: > Hi, > > > Does anyone know if it's possibe to boot LTSP f

[Ltsp-discuss] Hard drive

2002-02-27 Thread Stephen Berry
Hi, Does anyone know if it's possibe to boot LTSP from the hard disk, instead of boot ROMS or floppy? If anyone has any ideas it'd be great to hear from you. Stephen _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change