Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Please help - HP Compaq t5500 - How do I prep an NC to connect to a Linux Terminal Server

[<jon...@go...>]

Brian,

my humblest thanks ;-). I am trying to download LTSP 4 at the moment. Will
setup server and then give you a shout via email.

Again, many thanks,
                                                                           
                          Jonathan Hughes                                  
                                                                           
                          Tech Support Specialist                          
                          MCP / MCSD                                       
                                                                           
                          Goodyear South Africa                            
                                                                           





                                                                                                                                      
                      Brian Payst                                                                                                     
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Johnathan -
 The HP t5500 will boot LTSP via PXE. In the system BIOS there is a
configuration setting for the boot order, I believe you set this to
Network - PXE. Note there is also a network setting without PXE. If you
choose this it will not work. With this in place it will ignore the
internal RAM disk and it's unpleasant Windows CE OS and happily run as a
very nice LTSP client.
 If you can't find the right BIOS settings, contact me and I will go
reboot one of the ones I'm running and get the exact names of the
settings you need to change. I don't have one in front of me at the moment.

Brian

jon...@go... wrote:

>
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I am new to LTSP but I have spent sometime reading and scouring the web
for
> details, readme's and info on how to setup LTSP on my SuSE Linux Standard
> Server 8 box. I have loaded the following rpms in my installation:
>
> ltsp_core-3.0.9-0.i386.rpm
> ltsp_kernel-3.0.15-0.i386.rpm
> ltsp_x_core-3.0.4-0.i386.rpm
> ltsp_x_fonts-3.0.0-0.i386.rpm
>
> I have three questions:
>
> (1) Is it possible to load the client software onto an HP t5500 thin
client
> (diskless) NC. The web states HP is giving LTSP its full support and that
> the t5500 can be used as a client. How do I load the Linux boot image
onto
> the NC - I cannot seem to find any documentation on how this is done. I
> normally flash these devices with CE.NET using either a parallel cable or
> FTP update. I have no idea however on flashing the RAM disks in these
NC's
> with LTSP boot images.
>
> (2) How do I properley uninstall the LTSP on my server once I have
> installed it. I want to re-install it but when I run its configuration
> script it will not 're-add' the config files etc. I have uninstalled the
> RPMS but I dont think this has deleted the config files and folders that
> LTSP installed.
>
> (3) Has anyone got any advice for me on setting up the network addresses,
> DHCP entries and my network address rage etc. in the LTSP config files.
> Also how does DHCP work with LTSP - my Linux box (on which LTSP is
loaded)
> is not a DHCP server. Is this a problem? Our DHCP servers on our local
> network are Windows NT machines. I could setup the Linux box as a DHCP
> server if required but I dont reallyyyyyyy want to.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. If I can get this system working it
> could mean a big step towards our company utilising Linux solutions to
meet
> our terminal server needs in the future.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>                           Jonathan Hughes
>
>                           Tech Support Specialist
>                           MCP / MCSD
>
>                           Goodyear South Africa
>
>
>
>
>
>
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