Thanks for info. I remembered that this thincan has problems with mknbi (that's why no boot). Used wraplinux to create nbi image. I recalled that AFTER I made the suggested changes so I'm not sure if it still would have not booted. Nevertheless it boots up as expected now. Al thou it's dreadful slow. I would survive the at least twice as long boot up process, but X is slow also.
A lot bigger problem is the resolution problem (that's why I actually didn't stick with ubuntu 8) - the screen won't go anything other than 800x600 resolution. Any ideas what I could do? I know the box supports 1024x768 as I have seen it running on real life. The spec also says it supports it http://wiki.thincan.org/DBE60 . I tried pushing the resolution via ltsp.conf: X_MODE_0=1024x768 but it does nothing. What could I do to debug the problem? Janno On 18.04.2011 11:28, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > Στις 18-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:43 +0300, ο/η Janno Sannik > έγραψε: >> I'm trying to set up LTSP to ThinCan thin clients (AMD geode 266Mhz, >> 64mb ram). The problem seems to be that default kernel is too big for >> thin client to load (.nbi image is ~13MB). It just starts loading the >> images and then hangs somewhere at the end. >> >> Is there anything I could do to make it smaller or should I just use >> older release of ubuntu (ubuntu 8.04 booted fine, ~6Mb .nbi image) >> > 1) You can use an Ubuntu 8.04 chroot in an Ubuntu 10.04 server. > > 2) We're successfully using Ubuntu 10.04 chroots with old desktops with > 64 MB RAM. To make it work, we had to do the following: > * Disable nbd-proxy, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/589034 > for a how to. > * Disable compcache by adding "nocompcache" in the kernel command line. > * Increase NBD_SWAP in the server: > $ cat /etc/ltsp/nbdswapd.conf > SIZE=512 > It doesn't matter if it's a big value, as sparse files are used. > * Increase the "minram" variable in the ltsp_nbd file of the initramfs > from 48MB to 64MB, so that 64MB clients get NBD swap while still on > the initramfs, to prevent the hanging you saw. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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
