Re: [Ltsp-discuss] vmware test bed

2001-09-20 Thread Deryk Robosson
> Deryk, > > Yes, using VMWare to run the workstation is absolutely possible. > > In fact, that is how I developed 2.09pre2. Jim, Thanks for that info. It helped out quite a bit. The folks on the irc.openprojects.net #ltsp channel helped out with my gdm problem. Again, cheers to the eve

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] vmware test bed

2001-09-19 Thread Peter Rundle
Hi Deryk, Yep I had a go at this a while back. Couldn't get the X-Server to run at any reasonable resolution but the booting and all was real easy. When you create your virtual machine just make the floppy a file rather than a device and make it point to the .rom file. I show'd this to some peo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] vmware test bed

2001-09-19 Thread Jim McQuillan
Deryk, Yes, using VMWare to run the workstation is absolutely possible. In fact, that is how I developed 2.09pre2. I did this on my laptop, which is running Redhat 7.0. I saved the etherboot driver as 'pcnet32.rom', and told VMware that was my floppy drive. In the dhcpd.conf file, I used 'NIC

[Ltsp-discuss] vmware test bed

2001-09-19 Thread Deryk Robosson
Hi all, I tried LTSP about a year and a half ago with success and thought that I would give it a try again earlier this week. Not having a spare machine any longer to use for a guinnea pig I decided to try using vmware instead. I downloaded all the necessary ltsp 2.2 tarballs, installed