thin client assistance please

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Hello François,

Thank you for your considered information.

I had moved to 6.10 in an effort to get this working. I was able to boot a 
different thin client with a boot rom PXE with success.

However, I continued to have difficulty with the original client (Gateway 
G6 -350: Pentium II - 350MHz).
I was using a floppy-disk boot rom image on this client originally. I 
managed to get an Intel PXE boot rom Lan card and still this client still 
would not finish booting.
I could see with alt-F1 (tty1) that the OS was not finishing.

I decided to go back and try the 6.06 version again and then the client 
booted correctly. I am now using two clients and they are both booting 
correctly with version 6.06.
Since this is the LTS version I think I will stay with 6.06. I am expecting 
to receive a few more client computers in the coming days to expand the 
network.

I have only one small issue now. The gateway client will not shut off power 
when I shut down.
I have tried many Bios option for Power Management and have not been able to 
fix this but I am not concerned at this time.

bonjour

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "François BARILLON" <francois.barillon at free.fr>
To: <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: thin client assistance please


> Hello Jim,
>
> Peharps your problem isn't solved yet.
>
>> I am a newbee trying to build a EdUbuntu (6.06.1) thin client network for 
>> a local school.
> The 6.10 version has got some enhancements, but 6.06 is working.
>
>> I am using a PIII 500MHz w/ 256MB ram as a server and a PII 350MHz w/ 
>> 64MB ram as the 1st client.
> 256 Mb is a bit short (should be 512 plus 50 per client), but I ran
> test-server with even less.
>>
>> I have installed EdUbuntu on the, to be, server with 2 nics. One nic 
>> connected through a router to the internet and the second connected to a 
>> switch. I have connected the client to the switch and am using a floppy 
>> rom boot image to boot the client.
>>
>> When I boot the client it seems to be happy, loads all the pxe cfgs, 
>> seems to boot the linux kernel, and then I see the Ubuntu screen. It 
>> seems successful "loading essential drivers... OK". Next is "Mounting 
>> root file system... OK".
>>
>> However after this I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I can 
>> type in this screen but do not know if this is correct or what to do 
>> next. I am trying to get to the same familiar environment as I have on 
>> the server so the students will be able to use the thin clients in class.
>
> The normal login screen is graphical (ldm) but sometimes it fail to
> switch into graphical mode.
>
> If this is the problem, you can test typing alt-F7 to force graphical
> mode.
>
> If it doesn't work, you can try building again the lstp environnement
> with :
> sudo ltsp-build-client
>
> Bon courage,
>
> François
>
>
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