Re: [K12OSN] laptops as clients
Gustav Kramer (gjkramer@shaw.ca)
Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:39:58 -0800
It Works! - He says with a grin! Thanks very much for the pointer. As
it happens I have a Linksys PCMCIA card which, according to the README,
is supported. The laptop didn't have enough memory to boot into X but
the disk itself worked a treat. By pilfering some memory from another
machine I was able to prove the graphical log on. With any luck I'll be
able to pick up some memory off ebay and press this old gem back in to
service. Again, many thanks!
- gustav
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 12:44, Chris Thomas wrote:
> There is a LTSP boot disk for laptops that have PCMCIA
> drivers on it. I use it for my 3com TP card. unzip
> this file and put the image on a disk
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ltsp/wireless_ltsp-3.0.5-i386.tgz?download
> --- Gustav Kramer wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Have you had any success with your older laptop(s)?
> > I posted a similar
> > question some time ago and got no response. I
> > haven't had time to look
> > into it much further. If you have that option,
> > installing a minimum
> > distro with an x-server will work - that I've done.
> > The HDD controller
> > on the laptop I am currently trying to revive
> > doesn't have a working
> > hard drive controller so that solution won;t work
> > for me. I have tried
> > setting the Laptop's BIOS to boot from PCMCIA but
> > had no joy. If a guy
> > wants to stick with booting an older laptop via
> > floppy I figure there
> > are two ways to go:
> >
> > 1) Build a custom distro with X that fits on a
> > single floppy. Sort of a
> > Tom's Root Boot disk with X - don't know if it's
> > possible.
> >
> > 2) Build (or modify) a PCMCIA install disk. RedHat
> > (and I imagine
> > others) has a method to install over a network using
> > PCMCIA. I'm
> > thinking that with some tweaking a fellow should be
> > able to do something
> > with that. The first step, I think, would be to get
> > your particular NIC
> > recognized by the first install floppy vice having
> > to load a second
> > drivers floppy. I am hoping that the experience
> > gained in that little
> > exercise will point the way to the bigger changes
> > needed to do a network
> > boot instead of a network install.
> >
> > I've been busier than a one armed paper hanger this
> > last little while
> > but when I have a rainy day (more likely I'll need a
> > monsoon season) I
> > intend to explore the second option.
> >
> > Any thoughts? From anyone?
> >
> > - gustav
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:09, Rob Becker wrote:
> > > I am curious about using some older laptops as
> > clients. I know there
> > > will be some configuration required to get X
> > running properly on them,
> > > but my biggest concern is how to actually boot
> > them. Is it possible to
> > > use a rom-o-matic floppy to boot pcmcia nics? I
> > didn't see anything on
> > > their site about pcmcia. Am I stuck installing
> > some barebones distro so
> > > I can get an appropriate kernel onto the laptops?
> > If possible, I would
> > > like to boot via floppy. Has anyone tried this?
> > Has anyone succeeded
> > > at this? Any thoughts, ideas and links greatly
> > appreciated.
> > > Thanks.
> > > Rob
> > >
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