Edubuntu LTSP Netboot Client Setup

[Timothy Boyden]

LOL, humor is still alive I guess.

I got a little farther than my previous post. I rebooted and re-enabled
the hard drive, this allowed me to get to an (initramfs) prompt under
busybox which I assume is a secondary bootloader. But still no Edubuntu
GUI.

Specs are:

IBM T22 Thinkpad
Pentium 3 900 Mhz processor
128 MB RAM
20 GB Hard Drive
Video: S3 Savage/IX, 8 MB VRAM

It very well could be insufficient memory, and if that is the case, what
should be the "real world" specs for thin client hardware? From my past
experience with dedicated thin client hardware, most only had about a
300 Mhz proccessor with 64 or 128 Mb RAM and 8, maybe 16 Mb of VRAM?

I purposely tried to use some low-end hardware to see what the limits
are. I was going to go with a T20, but I guess I would've been pushing
it apparently. I don't understand the need to have the hard drive
enabled though, because that kind of defeats the purpose of a diskless
client, though I suppose it could be the memory issue again as the
reason for that. I'll have to try this with an IBM ThinkCentre M50
desktop and see how far I get.

Thanks,

Tim



-----Original Message-----
From: David Trask [mailto:dtrask at vcsvikings.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:26 PM
To: Timothy Boyden
Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Edubuntu LTSP Netboot Client Setup

"Timothy Boyden" <tboyden at supercoups.com> writes:
>Can anyone help me out with a clue?

Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick    (sorry couldn't
resist)   If you've never played the board game "Clue" then you won't
get
this "joke".

Now to address your issue....you simply may not have enough memory to
start X.  Can you give us some more info on the specs of the Thinkpad?

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100