Folks,
I have two Power Mac 6100's with 40 MB RAM sitting on a
table next to me logged into my Athlon LTSP server. The
clients are currently setup for AbiWord and Netscape 6.2.1.
It seems to be working very nicely!
The clients are running a 2.4.6-pre3 version of the
kernel hacked up for Nubus-PowerMacs. On the client,
after booting to the (KDE) desktop at runlevel 5, they
are using just about 24 MB of memory. After starting
Netscape, each client uses around 30-60 MB on the server,
as reported by top.
The PowerMacs have a 540 MB hard drive and builtin
graphic and network adapters. The boot process involves
booting a Linux kernel from the Mac partition with an
attached ramdrive. After the kernel is loaded, things
proceed pretty much the same as if the kernel had been
loaded by TFTP.
There were two or three problems that I solved along the
way. The last one is that xinit scripts on the server
assume everyone is using a PC keyboard. This is a bad
assumption for the Mac clients, and I found a way of
addressing this in the /etc/X11/xinit/fixkeyboard script.
The implementation is not totally generic for all
PowerMacs, or let's say I've only tried to make it work
for the 6100s we have at the school. I think it would be
easy to extend what I have to other Macs. At worst, we
could put entries in the lts.conf file to indicate what
the hardware platform is on a per client basis.
--Skip
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