LTSP on AMD64 with i386 client

Sean,

I'll have a hunt around www.k8we.com

Thanks for the reminder, I forgot to go back there.

Regards,

Ashley


On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 14:17 +0930, Sean Fitzgibbon wrote:
> I'm sorry to hear that.  My motherboard is the K8WE as well. 
> 
> The first thing I did when I got the board was flash the bios with an 
> update.  From what I understand the K8WE bios is still a work in  progess.
> 
> You could have a look at www.k8we.com as they often discuss the virtues 
> of the various bios updates.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sean
> 
> ashley maher wrote:
> 
> >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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >  
> >
>