Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-04-04 Thread David Johnston
dr Agon wrote: > > Hello, > > >Switch or hubs? > no any. BNC cable ;( > > >It will not. The users only need to remove the start diskette and > >insert their own ones. > cool :) > > >You can, but the gains are small and maybe do not outweigh the > >advantage of having all configuration on the s

Re: Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-04-01 Thread dr Agon
Hello, >so make sure that none of the users tries watching >(gif/flash/..)Animations or try to play action-games >via remote-X11 because that >slows down and stalls every terminal. I don't think, they will. They are just normal stupid computer users and don't know is any game in Linux ;) >> But

Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-03-31 Thread Wouter DeBacker
On Saturday 30 March 2002 16:10, you wrote: > One question left - how to write NIC ROM's? Is it possible > only with PC, or I need some another tool? In order to burn boot PROMs yourself you need a PROM programmer which you can connect to the parallel port of a PC. Usually computer shops don't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-03-30 Thread Michael H . Collins
Just as an aside to this, Frys has gigabit ether cards for $49.00 in their ad this week. On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:54:40 +0100 Martin Herweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream: ~ ~ ~dr Agon wrote: ~> 1. The boss would not like to own fast 100mbt network at this time. But if ~> he will

Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-03-30 Thread Martin Herweg
dr Agon wrote: > no any. BNC cable ;( so make sure that none of the users tries watching (gif/flash/..)Animations or try to play action-games via remote-X11 because that slows down and stalls every terminal. > But maybe it could reduce totall network loading? yes, and that's important in your k

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-03-30 Thread Martin Herweg
dr Agon wrote: > 1. The boss would not like to own fast 100mbt network at this time. But if > he will see, that X-terminals working fine, hi will owh that network. do you have BNC or TwistedPair Cable? For only 5 Terminals 10MBit is enough you can improve ther perfomance with * a switch instead

Re: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-03-30 Thread dr Agon
Hello, >Switch or hubs? no any. BNC cable ;( >It will not. The users only need to remove the start diskette and >insert their own ones. cool :) >You can, but the gains are small and maybe do not outweigh the >advantage of having all configuration on the server. But maybe it could reduce total

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on HDD (instead using floppy or NIC?

2002-03-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:44:54PM +0100, dr Agon wrote: > > Hello, > > I got a questions on LTSP. > > Now we have little network runnig Linux. We have 1 server (IP3 733, 256Mb, 20Gb) and >5 clients - from IP150 to 486DX2 100. Every client have 64Mb RAM and 1-2Gb HDD. >Unfortunally network is