On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:10:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest more RAM. This completely depends on what you're doing, but for comparison purposes: I use P133 machines with 48MB ram and an 8mb PCI video card. I run them at 1024x768/16 bit in a Gnome 1 environment. I have s/w glx enabled, and use TTFs which are provided through XFS running on the server. I use gimp, StarOffice, mplayer, etc. I have found that memory gets low very often, and have since had to create some swap to solve lockup problems (NFS swap is slow, so it should be avoided). On one of the machines, I ended up taking out the 48MB and put 80MB in instead, and it now appears to be running much better.
X4 uses a lot of memory (especially if you're running at a decent resolution with glx, ttf, etc). I would say that most workstation memory estimates I've seen are a little low for a full blown desktop. > 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 -- Cameron Lerch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- 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
