LTSP woes with Lucid Lynx

[Andrew]

Hi David,

Thanks for your suggestion. Actually, my thin clients *are* PIIIs - Dell
Optiplex G110s ...

Not sure what a fat client is. At the moment just looking for something
that will work out of the box without any hassle.

Anyone any views on HP thin clients?

Best regards,
Andrew


On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 07:50 -0500, David Groos wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I hesitate to suggest it as your tech knowledge of thin clients is
> well beyond mine, 'but just in case...' have you tried using some old
> P3 or P4 as a client?  Also, have you tried booting as fat clients?
> 
> Good luck!
> David
> 
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Andrew <andrew at aammscott.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>         Hi Jordan,
>         
>         Yes, I have tried playing with the boot parameters in the
>         manner you
>         suggest; unfortunately it has not changed the result.
>         
>         The 10.04 install on the workstation / server is completely
>         fresh; only
>         user files have been imported. I have already tried
>         reinstalling LTSP
>         standalone and rebuilding the client, figuring I must have
>         messed up
>         somehow.
>         
>         I am going to try booting the client with the desktop live CD,
>         but for
>         me all that will do is confirm the level of broken-ness. Just
>         tried this
>         and have confirmed 10.04 will *NOT* load up on the client
>         machine. The
>         screen actually goes into 'power-saving mode'; just as though
>         all video
>         signal has been lost, even though the machine is still active.
>         This is
>         precisely the same as what happens on PXE boot in 10.04 LTSP.
>         8.04 LTSP
>         is fine ...
>         
>         On a related note, what does everyone make of HP T5125 thin
>         clients? Are
>         they known to work with 10.04 [without issues]? Or are there
>         better
>         value thin clients out there? How does one actually use the
>         thin clients
>         with LTSP?
>         
>         Thanks! :)
>         
>         
>         
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