On Saturday 11 March 2006 12:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > whole thread follows, and they are authoritive words <smile> > > > > What I found to be easy, first I used a flash-boot disk (diskless have > > them) or for a laptop a USB boot stick. I made it work, but grub was a > > pain and not reliably repeatable, but syslinux works and is kewl. Put > > LTSP on local media. > > I tried experimenting a bit with getting an old laptop to boot from a > USB disk. I only got around to trying with grub so far, without success. > > The idea was to have a pocket multiboot device to LTSP server or client, > or to plain (bringalong) workstation, for practical and demo purposes. I > use part of the disk for portable Thunderbird etc. already. > > Would you mind sharing how you made the laptop boot from USB? Did the > laptop(s) you tried it on support USB booting in BIOS? This Acer TM 740 > LF at least doesn't seem to support it.
I don't immediately have the ltsp usb stick - its far away in another country, but you can grab a working usb image that is not ltsp, but shows all the syslinux stuff http://tigger.ws/downloads/ grab 256mb.img.bz2 and use dd to put it onto your usb stick. My laptop did do usb-boot in bios, this usb image works as is on a stick. I usually keep downloads passwded as robots troll all the time, soaking up my adsl bandwidth. It's off now, but I'll put it back in a few days. Mail me for the user/passwd if you are challenged. James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
