LTSP on AMD64 with i386 client

Sean,

Thanks for your reply.

My experience couldn't be more different.

hardware: tyan thunder k8we, dual opteron 244, 4 gig ram.

Spending days tracking the issue I'm convinced the bug is in the kernel.

Regards,

Ashley


On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 12:49 +0930, Sean Fitzgibbon wrote:
> I had no troubles with installing Breezy (pre-release) on my machine 
> (except setting up raid 5 was a pain).  It has been running stable for 
> the last month.  The only hiccup has been that sound stopped working one 
> day adn I cannot figure out why.
> 
> I am currently running  kernel 2.6.12-9-amd64-k8-smp and all is good.
> 
> Hardware is Tyan Thunder with 2x Opteron 270 and 16 Gb RAM.
> 
> I originally installed Fedora Core 4 and the install had problems with 
> the amount of memory.  I had to tell it to assume 256 Mb during 
> install.  However after installing and updating to kernel 2.6.12 it 
> worked fine.
> 
> I am really liking ubuntu although for some reason the installer only 
> installed a single processor kernel and I had to install the SMP kernel 
> manually.  But apt-get is so good who cares?
> 
> Anyway all I need now is to install LTSP for i386.....
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> ashley maher wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 11:13 +0930, Sean Fitzgibbon wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I have installed LTSP on my dual opteron "breezy" box following the 
> >>ThinClientHowTo.  It was very easy and seems to have worked.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Sean,
> >
> >Are you saying breezy is stable on your dual opteron?
> >
> >My dual Opteron was stable with hoary, only works in rescue mode for
> >breezy. Most of the research I've done indicates 2.6.12 kernel doesn't
> >live well with dual opterons so most are recommending installing the
> >2.6.14.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Ashley
> >
> >
> >  
> >
>