Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Accessing Hard Disk on Diskless Client

2003-11-11 Thread Peter Rundle
G'day Kent, How quickly can dd process your rebuild? Sorry Kent I don't know, I haven't tried this I was simply speculating that it could be done. However, the "bs" {blocksize not bullsh.t ;-)} argument to dd can make a huge difference to the speed. I think the default is 512. I know that speci

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Accessing Hard Disk on Diskless Client

2003-11-11 Thread Kent Collins
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 16:41, Peter Rundle wrote: > In our > script we have the commands that mount the local disk, use dd to copy > the desired image from the NFS disk to the local disk. > Pete, How quickly can dd process your rebuild? My terminal hard drives are around 2G each and when

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Accessing Hard Disk on Diskless Client

2003-11-11 Thread Peter Rundle
script we have the commands that mount the local disk, Kent, Bit of a brain fade, I meant load the ide drives for the local disk (obviously no point in mounting it). P. --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Accessing Hard Disk on Diskless Client

2003-11-11 Thread Peter Rundle
Kent, I think that using LTSP can provide the solution that you are looking for and do it in an automated fashion. Firstly however you will need to include the ide drivers into the LTSP kernel. There was a posting on this list recently on how to do that. Now via the lts.conf file you can contr

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Accessing Hard Disk on Diskless Client

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Griffing
Kent; I have been following your discussion for a while and would appreciate if you could post a summary of the steps you took to implement this, along with any scripts. > THANK YOU! Somehow when I installed LTSP kernel, the modules did not get > installed, so when I first tried modprobe, I g