How would this help... " 1) It only has slow ISA slots and AFAIK 100 Mb ISA NICs are hard to find. If you're using hubs then try replacing them with switches "
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:39 PM To: LTSP discussion list Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] 386 as workstation Hi Peter, According to my experience a 386, when used as a terminal, has the following problematic areas: 1) It only has slow ISA slots and AFAIK 100 Mb ISA NICs are hard to find. If you're using hubs then try replacing them with switches 2) Usually its graphics card contains 512 Kb of slow RAM. If you're lucky that amount can be expanded to at most 1 Mb. Therefore, you'll never get beyond a resolution of 800x600 with an 8 bit colordepth Unless of course you replace the graphics card with a more capable one. Your choice will be limited though, because as in 1) you have to stick to the ISA type of cards Nevertheless, the above doesn't necessarily have to be a problem. It all depends on which kind of applications you want to execute. Forget about KDE, Gnome, office suits, Konqueror, Netscape and the like. On the other hand, in an Internet kiosk setup you might get away with those 386s and, say, Opera or Phoenix Success On 22-Jan-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I want to run a 386/40 MHZ with 8 MB of RAM as workstation, > connected via > 10BaseT to the server. The trouble is that the whole boot process > is during > some 4 minutes. The download of the kernel works fine, > "uncompressing > Linux" is some half a Minute, then "Initializing RAM disk" also > some 1/2-1 > minute, the following tasks (building of the scripts) are som tens > of > seconds. On a Pentium90/32MB Ram the Boot process is during some 30 > Seconds. Is there any way to make it faster? Is a 386 PRACTICALY > useable as > a workstation? > > Thanx, Peter > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive > scholarships > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and > more > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > ____________________________________________________________________ > _ > 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.freenode.net -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 22-Jan-03 23:39:00 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
