Re: [Nolug] Installing LTSP

Ron,
1. It boots to command-line mode just fine.
2. K12LTSP is built on redhat.
3. It's too much trouble to carry it around.
If all else fails, maybe I'll go back to RH 7.2 (assuming that loads
OK -- like I said, it was preinstalled).
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsweb.info
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Installing LTSP

>So, it boots up cleanly...
>
>Does LTSP need specifically RH? Bring it over and I'm sure we
>can get X up...
>
>On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:53, Dave Prentice wrote:
>> Ron,
>> To backtrack: this server is a 350mhz dual PII with 384meg RAM
and
>> about 14gig HD space. It was donated with RH 7.2 preloaded. All
last
>> year it worked fine as a standalone and NFS/NIS server. Ever since
I
>> decided to upgrade to K12LTSP running on RH 7.3 -- after about 8
>> attempts to reinstall with various packages -- it will not start X.
>> The message comes up "No screens found." Xconfigurator yields a
>> "Segmentation fault" error. Every possible video driver is loaded,
and
>> I'm only trying to get it started in 640x480 8-bit mode.
>> I don't know if it makes a difference, but during the
installation
>> I did not accept the default size for the swap partition (twice the
>> memory). Since I plan to boost it to 512meg, I set aside a gig for
>> swap.
>> I have tried 2 sets of K12LTSP disks and even attempted to just
>> load with the plain 7.3 disks I used successfully at home.
>> Any ideas?
>> Dave Prentice
>> prentice@instruction.com
>> http://www.originsweb.info
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>> To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
>> Date: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Installing LTSP
>>
>>
>> >On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:11, Dave Prentice wrote:
>> >> Ron,
>> >> That link will be helpful someday, but right now the problem
is
>> >> getting the server to work even as a standalone.
>> >
>> >What's it (not) doing?
>
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