On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:43:23 -0500
Petre Scheie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If the laptop has a working hard drive, you can install Knoppix on it,
> configured to boot to runlevel 2 (command line, no X), and then put
>
> X -query address.of.ltsp.server
>
> in a startup script, which will give you a login to the server that
> looks just like a thin client. It's not a real thin client, since
> it's loading its own kernel locally. But the apps run on the server
> which makes it pretty quick. It's a 'chubby' client, as some have
> called it.
>
> I do this on my old Dell P300 laptop and it works pretty well. I
> started by booting Knoppix to runlevel 2 ('knoppix 2' at the boot
> prompt) just to make sure it was able to work with my wireless card.
> Then I ran install-knoppix (or is it knoppix-install?) which installs
> Knoppix on the disk, setting it to the same runlevel (2, no X) as it's
>
> currently running. This way it seems to use a whole lot less memory,
> even after starting the X -query command, so I think you can get away
> with having less than 128MB on the laptop.
>
> Petre
>
I did a similar setup with an old laptop that the LTSP Wireless Boot
floppy would not work with since I had to compile the driver myself for
this odd card.
I installed a very minimal Debian install on the laptop, then use the
"X -query"
as part of my startup scipt (along with launching esd for sound).
Looked just like a client, most work was still done on the server, etc.
And I used debian on the laptop so I could make the updates as easy as
ssh and run apt-get upgrade whenever I did it for the server. (The
server was a Debian box too).
Added bonus, I used the laptops hard drive to store backup data, since
it was basically not used anyway. Just ftp/ssh/etc into the laptop and
store away :-)
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