[PLUG] K12LTSP with massively different terminals

[Eric Harrison]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Colin Kuskie wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:56:51PM -0800, Eric Harrison wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Colin Kuskie wrote:
>> 
>> The most important thing is to have decent PCI video cards and nics.
>> 
>> LTSP tries its best to autodetect and configure the hardware in each
>> terminal.  If you have PCI video & nics, odds are very good that it
>> will work out-of-the-box.
>
>So how about a handful of assorted, old Pentium based Toshiba
>laptops with PCMCIA NIC's?  The original OS is Win95, and will
>need to stay Win95 until I can test some of the software that
>we're reliant on, so I'm planning on using boot floppies for
>a while.

With PCMCIA NICs you have a catch-22. You need software loaded to intialize
the PCMCIA cards so that you can get to the network to download the software.

In other words, a purely-diskless PCMCIA box is a no-go ;-)


There is a PCMCIA package at ltsp.org that you can use to make a boot
floppy for PCMCIA boxes.  I have not tried this myself.

-Eric