Yes, your *old* Pentium will make for an excellent workstation. <nutshell> At first, leave it as it is. If it hasn't got a NIC already then just plug in a spare one. Download the appropriate boot image for the NIC from rom-o-matic and write it onto a floppy. Setup a Linux distro and configure LTSP on it as per the documentation. Boot your Pentium from the floppy and ... enjoy LTSP. If everything works to your satisfaction then remove the HD and the CD drive from the workstation. If the NIC in your Pentium has room for a boot EEPROM then return to rom-o-matic and download the appropriate image. Have that burned into an EEPROM and plug it into the NIC. Your Pentium should boot from the code in the EEPROM without the presence of any floppy. Which makes the floppy drive redundant too. Et voila, there's your *diskless* workstation. </nutshell>
Success On 31-Jan-03 ricarte m. lapuz wrote:A > Greetings! > > We would like to ask for your help regarding our problem > if it's possible and how to migrate our old PCs into a > diskless workstation. Here are some specs about our old > PCs: > > Processor: Pentium 133 > Memory: 32 MB > Video Card RAM: 4 MB > > We will appreciate your immediate response regarding our > problem. > > Thank you very much. > > Ric > ____________________________________________________________________ > ** Get your free E-Mail account at WWW.DIGITELONE.COM ** > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 03-Feb-03 22:10:01 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
