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

[Mike E. <km...@ma...>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Trevor Batley wrote:

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

Oops - red ears :-/ TS 2.0.1 stock version.

But I solved the problem: Adding another 32 MB (to 96 altogether) cured 
it. When I log into the console and type "free", I can see that it has 
used 72 MB. Fair enough, but I still wonder why the CD version worked. 
Certainly the cfat module can't take up 8+ MB?

Mike 

> 
> 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
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