Hello jamie, Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 12:59:09 PM, you wrote:
jb> I'm running LTSP at home with a few clients that use a floppy to boot jb> from and also have linux on the hdd. I have noticed that the clients are jb> noticeably quicker when booting from the hard drive and use X -query to jb> access LTSP. You are sure it's configured correctly and everything? For my experience, at least on not-so-decent machines (up to 200 MHz) which I ran, booting Linux locally took ages in comparison, while clients booting from the net are up'n running in ca 45 seconds (whoooh, that's slow, but it's a 133 in that case with 24MB Ram and 10MBit). Probably you can remove lots of services from Linux X-Terminal machines which we did not, but I suspect the LTSP packages are quite optimized. jb> A thought, and I know it would require recompiling the kernel and much jb> more, but I am tempted to see if I can copy the files from /opt/ltsp to jb> a cf disk and boot from that to X query the LTSP server. NFS swap would jb> still be used, home mounted via NFS on the LTSP server. Looks like a jb> 64mb flash disk would be sufficient if all uneeded xserver packages are jb> removed. jb> Does this sound jb> feasible? Yes, if your BIOS supports it. Then take the initrd-stuff and load the kernel with initrd via lilo instead of etherboot. jb> practical, useful or If there is an environment that does not allow remote-booting, but remote X, yes. Perhaps you should look for a way to ask optionally which IP to connect to, so you could take your flash around and boot on other computers as well. jb> interesting. Keep us posted what you had to do to get it running! Best regards, Anselm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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