Laptop thin client.

[Mauricio Hernandez]

On 10/17/05, Philipp Schröder <philipp at din15.org> wrote:

> In my case, I have an attachable external floppy drive.

Hmmm, and does the Bios let you boot from that drive?

Afaik, when no network cards are present as part of _default_ hardware
settings of the machine, there are a couple of tricks people can use
to make these thin clients boot.

Check this URL and let us know if it works for you

http://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDocumentation/BootingClientWithoutPxe

Also, getting in contact with 'Yagisan' at #edubuntu may be very
helpful as he's had some experience with _non_booting_boxes :D

> Yes, Ubuntu 5.10 (my old Laptop is a Thinkpad 600).

mine is a Fujitsu LifeBook 2175, just in case :-p and it has never
booted from any media but HD and fortunatelly netcard (PXE setup on
the BIOS).

> P.S.: Unfortunately, Ubuntu is running *dead slow* on the Thinkpad 600,
> even though I have 294 MB of RAM (= the maximum for TP 600) !?

Ubuntu default Desktop environmen is Gnome. Have you tried
WindowMaker, Fluxbox (one of the lightest desktops, maybe), IceWm,
XFCE4 (lighter than Gnome)?

I have ben using 3 different old boxes for the last 3 years, and
Fluxbox has never let me down. The default setting is boring simple if
you are used to Enlightenment, Gnome or Kde desktops. However, there
are many ways to customize it and make it rock real bad. Same goes for
WindowMaker, at least.

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Regards from Chile,

Mauricio Hernandez Z.

"Hell is repeating someone else's mistakes" (JPS)