Re: [Thinstation-general] A success story - and a problem

[Trevor B. <tr...@ba...>]

Don't mean to sound cheaky Mike, but what version? :P

Have you fully followed your readme:
If you have set the STORAGE_PATH option in "thinstation.conf.buildtime", put a
"thinstation.conf.user" on the harddisk as
STORAGE_PATH/thinstation.profile/thinstation.conf.user" ("thinstation.conf.user"
is a copy of "thinstation.conf.example").
Otherwise defaults set in "thinstation.conf.buildtime" will be used. 

Otherwise I can't think of any differences between the 2!

Did you do your own local build or via my-TS? (Hope it wasn't a problem
there.....:-)).

Trevor B

Quoting Mike Eriksen <km...@ma...>:

> I'm at a chemistry department at a technical university. As a part of the 
> education, the students have to look up safety instructions for chemicals. 
> This is done on the web on a special site on campus. It works really well.
> 
> However, there is one pc per lab (= 14 students). This is plenty. Normally 
> three labs runs at the same time. But only 2 afternoons a week in 12 weeks
> a year. Not a heavy load for a dedicated pc :-) 
> 
> The three PCs are Pentium 166 MHz with 64 MB RAM and running win-2k-pro 
> (don't laugh!). For some reason it takes forever to boot win-2k and launch
> MSIE 
> :-)
> 
> As the nice guy I am, I offer a Thinstation kiosk for the PCs. A 3com 900 
> XL and a S3 Virge seems a perfect target, right? I prepare a test CD and 
> boot on it. SUCCESS! Works in first try :-)
> 
> So I saved the Danish tax payers from three brand new PCs running 2 
> afternoons a week in 12 weeks a year. 
> 
> Ok then, we need to boot off the HD. Format the disk as a 50 MB FAT 
> partition and waste 3400 MB. Oh, well.
> 
> Boot with loadlin and... X crash?! With the very same initrd as used with 
> the iso! What the ****. OK, change the VGA driver from S3 Virge (which is 
> correct) to VESA. Same problem.
> 
> How on earth can X know anything about the bootloader?! And the very same 
> initrd crash with loadlin but works with isolinux?! OK, I did change 
> STORAGE_PATH from /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/disc0/part1 to point to the local 
> pkgs (firefox and flash), but still...??? The initrd is ~3.4 MB.
> 
> Any hints anyone?
> 
> Mike
> -- 
> Thinstation FAQ maintainer
> http://thinstation.sourceforge.net
> - a light, full featured linux based thin client OS
> 
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Trevor Batley
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