Hi Rolf, > I wanted to start ordering parts for a thin client, but there are two > questions I'd like to ask about the mini-itx thing before. > > Is there a boot ROM socket for the onboard network card or a built-in > boot ROM? Or how do you boot for LTSP from your clients? No, no ROM socket. They have PXE built in. For setup see the section "Booting with PXE" in the ltsp manual: http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-4.1/ltsp-4.1-2-en.html
> Which direction does the riser card have to point to in your configuration? It points to the left (away from the mainboard). So the graphics card occupies most of the space that originally was intended for a hard disk and/or a CD-ROM/DVD drive. > By the way, the VIA EPIA-VE 5000A doesn't seem to be available anymore, > instead the one with TV-out is still there. Would you say a floppy port > make sense (is there space for a floppy in the case?) or should I look > for one of those boards that support USB 2.0 instead? That depends. If you/your users need a floppy/fast USB it makes sense. :-) We don't have any thin clients with floppy and can live with the USB 1.0 speed. YMMV. In the case we use (Morex Cupid 2677 V2.0) there would be space enough for a floppy drive but it has no prepared bay for it. If you want a floppy you better select another case, like e.g. Morex Cubid 2688V with a prepared bay. But looking at the pictures at the Morex Website I think with a floppy inside there is no place left for the PCI graphics card. If you need both I'm afraid you need a bigger case. Horst ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _____________________________________________________________________ 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
