[Wizard] Re: Netway "Wizards" (was: Re: [plug] D-Link DSL200 Linx support)

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:19:22AM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:

| I'm working on making a fully netbootable X-terminal[4], similar to
| LTSP, but without the need for an NFS server - X server et al is all
| contained within the initrd.

Hmm... I'm curious as to why you're considering the lack of NFS server
to be such an advantage on a netbooting terminal - compared to setting
up DHCP, TFTP and KDM, NFS is downright trivial to get working.
Screwing around with an initrd is also messier than screwing around with
a bunch of ordinary files on an NFS server.  Plus it takes up more RAM
to use an initrd.

... unless you're planning on doing away with the netbooting entirely
once you've got it booting off flash?

| It's currently using the VESA server, because nothing else has yet
| worked, but I realised I have one more driver to try (X SVGA 3.3.1
| linked against libc5 is claimed to work... :)

If you're talking about the binary on the driver CD, I tried it and it
didn't work.  Plus it didn't even recognise ImPS/2 wheelie mice either
so it would have been a bit of a nuisance even if it did work :(  I also
tried X 3.3.2.3 linked against libc6 from Debian "hamm" and it didn't
recognise the card at all (wanted to use 320x200 mode, blech!)

Cameron.