I dont mean the floppies of the work stations. I mean the boot sector of the hard disks of the work stations.
Thanks --- Joey Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when you say the boot sector of the workstations, > are you referring to the > floppy diskettes, this is probably due to old disks > or even more possibly > bad drives. i went through a number of old drives > before finding a decent > one, its been ok since > > floppy and cdrom support is documented i believe on > the ltsp website.i think > the files you are looking for are nbd and such, all > can be foudn here > > http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/contrib/generic_rmedia.html > > hope this helps... > joey > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: potla murali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:06 AM > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] couple of questions > > > > Hi, > > I have successfully configured LTSP on Red Hat > 7.3. > > I am successfully running some clients over that > > server. > > > > I have some small questions > > > > 1) I am unable to see X running on a workstation > which > > has 3Com (3c509) ISA NIC Card, 20 MB RAM and > Cyrrus > > Logic GD 5428 VGA Card. It tries to start X server > but > > its never succeded. I tried giving the XSERVER > value > > to XF86_SVGA in lts.conf file. I also tried giving > > cirrus option for XSERVER value. But in both cases > > it's not successful. I am successfully running a > > similar workstation with almost same configuration > > except a small difference in VGA Card (which is > Cyrrus > > Logic GD 5438). > > How can I solve this problem ? > > > > 2) After running couple of workstations I noticed > that > > the boot sector on the work stations getting > > corrupted. I dont know the reasons for it. Why is > this > > thing happened ?. The machines on which i have > lost > > boot sector are testing systems. Now i am > frightened > > to try other machines as a workstations, because > of > > this thing. If there is a bug or something then i > will > > lose my data. > > > > 3) Is it possible to access the local > floppy/CD-ROM > > devices? > > > > More information > > Server: Redhat 7.3 > > LTSP Packages: ltsp_core-3.0.7, ltsp_kernel-3.0.5, > > ltsp_x_core-3.0.4, ltsp_x_fonts-3.0.0 and > > ltsp_x336_svga-3.0.0. > > > > I am not on the list. So please cc to me > > > > Thanks in advance for ur help > > > > Murali > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the > basics of securing > > your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE > TRIAL of a Thawte > > Server Certificate: > http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
