On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 09:36, Nick Rout wrote: > I got the k12 Linux Terminal Server going last night. It is basiaclly a > Redhat 7.3 system, with the Linux Terminal Server Project isos added and > some educational software plus open office. (K12 is the US abbreviation > for school - Kindergarten to year 12). I had it running over a 10M > network with a athlon 1133 w/256M memory as a server and a p166 w/32 M > RAM as a terminal. The terminal boots from a floppy (just to load a > bootp/dhcp client, it hen loads its kernel over the network - very fast). > The disk drives on the terminal are not used at all, in fact you could > do away with the floppy too if you had bootable ethernet cards. > > It goes quite nicely, but I would recommend a 100M network with a switch > (rather than hub) to use it seriously. The price of 100M cards is fairly > minimal these days, although the desiarbility of a pci slot for the 100M > card does mean you cannot go too retro on hardware. > > This would be a good setup for a school with (say) a set of aging p200's. > Buy a server, some 100M cards and a switch and your hardware gets a few > more good years. > > I know a couple of other people have had similar setups going and I have > a couple of questions: > > 1. how do you turn the terminal off or restart it, other than exiting > the window manager and hitting the power/reset switch. Ordering a reboot > from the login screen reboots the server (oops) (does require root > password) Yip I did that too.. went downstairs and couldn't figure who shutdown the server!! > > 2. is it possible to get a dmesg display for the _terminal_ as I am > trying to get sound going on the terminal and want to debug the startup > messages. Typing dmesg in an xterm gives the dmesg for the _server_. Again, I'm at about the same point you are.
> -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
