Hi James, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
thanks! Will look what's inside, and learn some about syslinux. > My laptop did do usb-boot in bios, this usb image works as is on a stick. OK, so you didn't have to deal with that hurdle. I'm toying with ideas like using loadlin or some such, at least for computers that would otherwise run something MS. > 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. Got it, thanks! BR, Gudmund ------------------------------------------------------- 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
