Attila, The current implementation of LTSP supports x86 architectures for the client. There's also a package from Robbie Stanford on the LTSP download page that gives support to Sparc workstations.
There's no reason why PPC wouldn't work also, but some work is definately required. The new directory layout, since 2.09 allows for a place for architectures other than x86. The current x86 has a root fs of /opt/ltsp/i386. Sparc is /opt/ltsp/sparc, and if you did a PPC port, it would be /opt/ltsp/ppc. Aside from building a kernel for PPC, you'd also have to build the initrd image, and you would need to populate the /opt/ltsp/ppc directory with all the PPC versions of everything in there. This is NOT a trivial task, but i'm sure it would be useful to alot of PPC users. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > You're absolutely right! > LTSP is designed for X86-PCs with Linux, and it works great. We've installed > LTSP on our Linuxserver (SuSE 7.1) which serves 15 PCs. No problem so far. Now > we try to 'enhance' LTSPs range of operation to Macintosh (PowerPC). I > conducted some test with a Mac PowerPC 7600/120. SuSE Linux 7.3 for PPCs runs > without problems on this Mac/PPC. Now I'm trying to use this Mac as an > X-terminal, like a diskless PC. I'm managed to load a customized Linux kernel > (2.4.9-benh0) over the network into the PPC (using the same > resources/installations as our LTSP-PCs). The kernel is configured to load root > fs by NFS form server. I do not have Mac-OS installed on this PPC. Unfortunately > the kernel loads just to a certain point and ends with following message: > > attempt to access beyond end of device > 08:02: rw=0, want=33, limit=27 > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=08:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 > > Questions: > - What's going wrong? What exactly means this error message? > - Do I need special kernel settings which aren't mentioned into LTSP docs? > - Is there any chance that LTSP can serve PPCs too? > > Does somebody has a clue? Every input is highly appriciated. > > Regards > > Attila > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
