On 17 Mar 2004 15:32:42 +0100
Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 14:01, Hedemark, Magnus wrote:
> > Richard Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > 
> > > The school I teach at in England is using LTSP with
> > > considerable success on the curriculum network.  We
> > > have just been offered some Wyse Terminals WT3720SE's
> > > and Compaq Badged 1010.  
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to use these as LTSP thin-clients? 
> > > I've looked through the website and can find any information.
> > 
> > I struggled with a similar dilemma over the HP t5500 thin clients,
> > which also run WinCE.
> > 
> > I ended up biting the bullet and ordering a couple from our HP
> > vendor.  It turns out these are normal PC's, just without any moving
> > parts.  There was a BIOS option to change the boot order to make PXE
> > come ahead of the flash disk.  They work great with LTSP as well as
> > ClusterKNOPPIX.
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with that specific model of terminal, but it might
> > be possible that you can change the boot order to make it boot off
> > the network before any local storage.
> 
> We have a few wyse terminal on citrix here, they are not compatible
> with ltsp since it's a propritary asoftware on propritary hardware and
> we have not been able to pxe boot them either.
> 
> what i will recomend it www.vxl.co.uk
> they sell linux based thinklients that you can pxe boot think it's
> called TC3531-LI or TC3533-LI, you can allso use the GIO interface to
> connect to the thinkserver without pxe booting. 
> i have found them to work well and i think the price was nice too.
> 
> its based on a via epia board and with a bios change you can boot from
> pxe ( you need to call them to get a bios password)
> 
> with regards
> -- 
> Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sounds interesting - unfortunately their site crashes Mozilla Firefox
0.8 so I can't read it :-(

John


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