On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, User Groups wrote: > Hi > > My boss uses Red Hat 9 on his notebook but finds it awefully slow even though > the RAM is 256 MB. :-( > > When I configured his notebook to boot of the LTSP server via lilo it just > booted amazingly fast. > > Can he boot his notebook from the LTSP server, but map the /home/ folder of > his local hard disk so that his e-mail is stored locally on his hard disk?
Sure. The simplest way is to boot the laptop normally and replace "prefdm" in /etc/inittab with "X -query server". Set up his laptop to run an NFS server, and export /home/boss on the laptop. On the server, nfsmount bosslap:/home/boss /home/boss. Make sure this You might consider a few things you can do to improve the speed of the laptop first. I run Red Hat 9 on a laptop with 128 MB, and am generally happy. #1. Set LANG="en_US" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. This is a biggie. grep is orders of magnitude faster (in one test, changing this reduced the time it took grep to finish a job from 7 seconds to 0.010 seconds). This is a known bug; Red Hat has experimental patches addressing this. grep is used a lot, and this can make a noticeable difference. #2. Make sure his name resolution is working properly. nsswitch, resolv.conf, and hosts can all cause terrible problems. #3. Uninstall programs he doesn't need. #4. Disable programs he doesn't use often, and teach him how to start them when he needs them. -David ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ 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
