I believe you should be able to do this. The clients obviously have NIC's with Boot ROM's in them, so your first job is to find out how that works.. I was thinking that the data may be hard coded in the ROM but it is probably a dhcp/bootp setup. So just get the data from your dhcp setup on the Novell server and copy it to a Linux server. You will also need to find the DOS image on the Novell server and copy it to the Linux server and point the DHCP/BOOTP "filename" attribute to that.
You will then need to provide the file system for the DOS machines and they probably want to connect to Novell shares so you will have to get the Netware emulator MARS (I think) (equivalent to SAMBA only for Novell) and set it up to duplicate what the DOS machines see currently. If you get it running I would love to hear the success story. Obviously this is not LTSP as it stands for "LINUX Terminal Server Project" rather than "MSDOS Terminal Server Project" but I can see how you could have misunderstood. :) Have a great one. Doug Breshears -----Original Message----- From: Lista do Pei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:29 AM To: Anselm Martin Hoffmeister Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with DOS Clients Hi Anselm, I Have this situation: a server running novell 3.11 with 40 DOS diskless terminals running a FoxPro application in DOS environment and I have to migrate to a Linux solution, but the Clients do not have Hard disks. That's why I thought in a LTSP solution. Don't you think it's possible? Thanks, Pei. Em Ter, 2004-01-27 às 01:36, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister escreveu: > Pei Chiou wrote: > > I'm newbee in LTSP and I whish to know if I could migrate a novell 4 > > with 50 DOS clients to LTSP with 50 DOS clients and also gain > > perfomance? Do the server has to be a Dual Processored or a simgle > > processored PIV is enough to do the job? > > I'm not sure what you want to do. The point about LTSP is *not* having > "DOS clients", but the terminals running a very cut-down Linux instead. > If you plan replacing the novell server with a linux box: That's > possible, but has nothing to do with LTSP in the first place. They can > even coexist and collaborate. > > I'd like you to inform about what LTSP is and what it commonly is used > for. Reading the mailing list archive could give you a rough idea, > www.ltsp.org contains some material and of course you will most of the > time find someon on the #ltsp irc channel (irc.freenode.org I think) > who's willing to talk about his setup. > > If you explain more precisely what "job" has to be done, probably > someone can tell you wether you need dual CPU. For running openoffice, > java, mozilla, stuff you probably want a *fast* box. More RAM seems to > be more important than a faster CPU though, YMMV. This has been > discussed several times on this list, so I won't elaborate. > > HTH > > Anselm > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Pei Chiou Analista de Ti ASOLIS - Applied Solutions on Linux Systems www.asolis.com.br ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
