On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:40, Sudev Barar wrote: > Can any one give me pointer steps on how to setup pcmcia card based > networked laptop for ltsp ? Current user does not want to abandon Win > system and wants to boot of a floppy to test the waters. > > Sudev I have received following replies. Lets keep this on the list so that others may contribute / benefit.
Dan wrote: Well, you might wanna start off with http://rom-o-matic.net to try to find a compatible boot image. The only thing that even looks promising is the xircom tulip driver, which may or may not support a pcmcia card adapter. This step would be to load up a kernel. Assuming you could find a boot driver, your next step is having a kernel that will support the pcmcia card so it can then mount the nfs export to /. This may require you to build a custom kernel, but more likely, you will need an initrd instead of a new kernel. The overall steps to this entire process are mentioned in http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/customkernel.html with more info, including the steps needed for that part of the process, in the Documentation/initrd.txt file included with any recent kernel source package (http://www.kernel.org). Now, if this sounds like a lot of work, it might be. I may be overstating this a lot since I haven't tried it myself just yet, but I think I might do it anyway to leverage my old laptops for something useful.... Roy wrote: Did you find an answer? I too am looking for this information. If you have some please send it to me. Chuck wrote: use wirelress package from ltsp. Supports a bunch of wired pcmcia cards. My understanding is that before a laptop is able to recognize the pcmcia card some drives etc needs to be loaded onto the machine. In case of LTSP boot by floppy there is nor drive loading only the instructions to load boot loader from server which then takes over the job of loading the kernel. If this is correct then rom-o-matic or etherboot stuff will not work or would it? I have to read wireless package though and will get back if it is the answer Chuck. Sudev ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.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
