Hi Jim Noted. Thanks for your further advice.
Stephen At 01:29 PM 7/21/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Stephen, > >More answers follow: > > >On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > > > Lot of thanks for your advice and time spent > > > > At 08:52 AM 7/21/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 1) Can 486 PC with 8 Mb RAM be used as Diskless Workstation > > > > > >Yes, a 486 with 8mb of ram can be used. But, you will definately > > >want to turn on NFS-Swap. > > > > How to make this change on the server. Would it affect other > Workstations ? > >In the lts.conf file, simply specify "USE_NFS_SWAP = Y" >and the next time you boot the workstation, the swap file will >be automatically created for you. You can specify the size >by using the 'SWAPFILE_SIZE' parameter. > > > > > > > > 2) Will its speed be slow or it uses the resource of the Terminal > Server > > >Yes, it will be rather slow, but probably useable. The apps will > > >actually run on the server, but be displayed on the workstation. > > > > If I understanding your answer correctly the slow speed in running > > application is on account of the slow display/graphic card in the 486 box > > disregard having a powerful server. Or on account of the slow CPU in the > > 486 box to run the kernel and the Xserver. > >Yes, typically, on the 486 computers, the graphics cards aren't very >good, and the cpu is rather slow. Plus, with only 8mb of ram, you >will be swapping, which will also slow things down. > > > > > > Please correct me if I am wrong. > > > > > > 4) It uses the its own graphic display of the resource of graphic > display > > > > in the Terminal Server > > > > > >It has nothing to do with the graphic display of the server. IN fact, > > >the server doesn't even need a graphics card. > > > > That means after installation even the graphic card can be removed from > the > > server > >Well, yes. but, you still would want some kind of console for the >server. You could do that with a serial terminal, but i've never >done that. I was just trying to point out the fact that the >display on the workstations has nothing to do with what graphics >capabilities the server has. > > > > > > >By default, the only thing running on the workstation is the > > >Linux kernel and the Xserver. The applications will typically > > >be run on the server. But, if you had very powerful workstations, > > >you could run the apps on the workstations. > > > > Just for curiosity how to make the application running on a diskless > > workstation ? > >This is a difficult subject. There is some information in the >ltsp-3.0 documentation. Also, you should load the ltsp_local_apps >package, and the ltsp_local_netscape package, to better understand >how it all works. > >But, if you are running 8mb of memory and local swap, on a 486, >you definately do NOT want to do local apps. > >Jim McQuillan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
