OK, granted that it is not a good idea to use the local harddrive in the thin client, but is it possible?
I converted 10 Pentium Is with only 16MB RAM to thin clients. My server is running Debian 4.0 in GNOME, and the thin clients seem to work OK as long as I set their screen resolution to 800x600 and turn on network swap. Now that I have the network up and running, I realized that there are some files on the clients' harddrives which I want to move to the server. Most of the clients still have Windows95/98 installed in their harddrives, but I have been unable to get them to network to my Linux server with Samba. I can't use a liveCD or LiveUSB to boot them up and then network to the server, because they don't have CD-ROMs or USB ports and they only have 16MB of RAM anyway, which is too low for any liveCD which I have tried. I can't physically remove the client's harddrives and stick them in the server because they are IDE and the server uses SATA. The only way that I can get the files off the Pentium I computers is too boot up Windows95/98 and compress the files into 1.4MB files which can be transferred via floppy disk. However this is very time consuming--it will probably take me an entire day to do this for the 10 computers. It would be much easier if I could just read the thin client's harddrives and grab the files. Cheers, Amos --- jam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 02:08:09 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > >> I had install Ubuntu 8.04 alternate for my LTSP > Server and works great > > >> but in my client there is Hardisk IDE to save > the document because My > > >> Hardisk in the server is almost full > > >> > > >> How to detect that hardisk and using it? > > > > > > Your user must be a member of the 'fuse' group. > After that I believe your > > > local disk should appear on the desktop if you > haven't disabled local > > > devs in lts.conf. > > > > i had it > > > > this my /etc/group > > > > fuse:x:107:daus,siswa,tes > > > > and this my lts.conf > > > > [00:90:f5:45:7b:cf] > > LOCALDEV = True > > SOUND = True > > NBD_SWAP = True > > SCREEN_02 = shell > > [00:19:66:05:75:f7] > > LOCALDEV = True > > SOUND = True > > NBD_SWAP = True > > > > > > i dont know why i use my old edubuntu 7.10 it > detect hardisk on my laptop > > althougth it only detect one partition but it > did'nt work at all with my PC > > Thin Client it did'nt detect anything > > > > Anybody have clue how to debug it > > You don't want to hear this but don't do it. It will > bite you and leave > blood :-) > > How are you going to fsck the local disk? > How does user 1 get their documents on terminal 2? > A full disk means BadPerformance. It used to be no > fuller than 75%. Modern > disks say 85%. A 500G disk in Australia cost 2 > hours. You are going to spend > 10x that time. > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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
