[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, > > i bought a server to convert a bunch of pii 200mhz machines into edubuntu > terminals at my kid's school. however, i didn't quite understand the > complexity of using intel based terminals and an amd64 dual core server. > long story short - they wouldn't connect. this is likely due to my lack of > wizardry, however, i'm not trying to be a dual architecture, work through > incompatibilities wizard, i'm trying to set up a lab that kids will find > useful. > > so, it is on to plan b. i want to swap out the main board on the server and > go with an intel cpu. are there any "gotchas" i can avoid by picking the > right motherboard and cpu? do intel 64 bit cpus pose a problem? > > thanks for sharing your insight and experience. > > oe1 > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster > Total Access, No Cost. > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com > > If your server is AMD64 and your clients are 32 bit, you can still use the setup to build ltsp images (ltps-build-client) for the 32 bit client machines. In fact, I believe there's a page in the wiki on building PowerPC clients running off aa64 bit server...I'm a bit tight on time, so I cannot search right now...maybe someone else can point to it?
Also make sure your PII machines can PXEboot or are setup for etherboot. Sameer --------------------- hi Sameer and John, thanks for responding. i set up the server with 7.10 just fine. i also set it up to deal with win32 clients (my exact steps were previously posted to this mailing list), but there was still a failure to connect - i had posted the exact failure on this mailing list a while back. someone on this forum said they tried it on 7.10 and it didn't work for them, either. they did get it to work on 7.04. i tried to install 7.04 on the server and it wouldn't install. so the one that works won't install on the server and the one that doesn't installs just fine. ;-) i might wait and see if i can get 8.04 edubuntu up and running before buying the new intel mainboard and cpu, but i'm to the point i just want something to work. here is one of the threads dealing with my previous attempts... http://www.nabble.com/LTSP---Server-AMD64,-Thin-Clients-i386-td15533884.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
