This post got me wonerding something again. In all of your opinions,Is the
performance/quality of a low-end 486 worth the trouble of getting it to work?
I tried a few when I was first installing ltsp and I wasnt satisfied with
the video. It was also harder to get them to work. The availability of the
cheap linksys pci adapter with a boot rom installed encouraged me to find
more pci systems. I decided not to use anything that didnt have pci slots
as my cut off point. It cost me very little to replace the isa systems with
slightly less older pci capable systems.
I do have quite a few of these ancient systems packed away now. Most of them
only have 8 megs of ram an 1 meg isa video. My experience was that the cost
of more ram and better vlb or isa video was almost as much as a new/used pci
system.
Has anyone else had any better experience trying to use machines older than
this, or have you had the same problems that I did?
-Jeff
> Micha,
>
> The problem is 4mb of ram is NOT enough.
>
> To get booted, the workstation needs to load the kernel
> and the initrd image into ram. It needs more than 4mb
> to do that.
>
> It is possible to build a Linux kernel that doesn't need
> the initrd. you would have to pick your network card
> driver and compile it in, rather than making it a module.
>
> There is some information on kernel building in the LTSP-3.0
> documentation.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-2] Micha� Fryska wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'v got a problem with my workstation, that "hangs up" after booting
>> the kernel from server. It looks like it cannot start NFS, but it
>> gives me no error messages. Neither on workstation, nor in system logs
>> on server.
>>
>> The workstation is very "poor" ;-) cos it's 486SX/40MHz, 4MB Ram,
>> 3C509 ISA, Trident 512Kb ISA, but i think it should work with Linux at
>> all. The server (PIII 933, 128Kb - for now) runnig Mandrake 8.1.
>>
>> Everything goes well. It gets reply from dhcp, gets the kernel from
>> tftp, starts loading...
>>
>> Whole messages look OK. This are only a few last ones:
>>
>> [....]
>> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>> Freeing initrd memory: 452k freed
>> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed
>>
>> It stops here and nothing happens.
>>
>> Here's my configuration:
>> Server A - running dhcpd
>> Server B - running the other nessesary services for LTSP.
>>
>> --- /etc/dhcpd.conf begin
>> ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
>> default-lease-time 21600;
>> max-lease-time 21600;
>> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>> option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
>> option routers 192.168.1.1;
>> option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
>> option domain-name "pewik";
>> option root-path "192.168.1.13:/home/ltsp/i386";
>> option option-128 code 128 = string;
>> option option-129 code 129 = text;
>>
>> shared-network WORKSTATIONS {
>>
>> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>> range 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.250;
>> option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
>> }
>>
>> subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>> range 192.168.2.200 192.168.2.250;
>> option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
>> }
>>
>> subnet 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>> range 192.168.3.200 192.168.3.250;
>> option broadcast-address 192.168.3.255;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> host 3com3300w {
>> hardware ethernet 00:50:99:21:E8:98;
>> fixed-address 192.168.1.8;
>> }
>>
>> group {
>> use-host-decl-names on;
>> option log-servers 192.168.1.13;
>> next-server 192.168.1.13;
>>
>> host ws001 {
>> hardware ethernet 00:20:af:05:63:a9;
>> fixed-address 192.168.1.99;
>> filename "vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5";
>> option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
>> option option-129 "NIC=3c509";
>> }
>> }
>>
>> --- /etc/dhcpd.conf end
>>
>> --- /etc/exports begin
>> /home/ltsp/i386
>> 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(ro,no_root_squash)
>> /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles
>> 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash)
>>
>> --- /etc/exports end
>>
>> --- /etc/hosts begin
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>> 192.168.1.13 elrond.pewik elrond
>> 192.168.1.99 ws001.pewik ws001
>>
>> --- /etc/hosts end
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Szum.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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