Re: [K12OSN] Urgent - Help Needed

[Bob Karschnia <bobk mn rr com>]

It is a small school board.  Maybe a little history 1st.

My 1st trial was to bring down my sever from home running K12LTSP and replace 
teh lab server and give it a shot.  It work great.  Within 30 min, I had 12 
units running off my P3-500, 384Mb system.  Video problems slowed me down.  I 
would have booted more but different network cards were used and we didn't 
have timer for those.  The teacher in charge of the lab was immediately onto 
how to teach the kids new things.  He was impressed wiht Linux but I was more 
impressed in his quick transiton on to teach with this system.  He also 
really liked the idea of a maintaining a single server vice 50+ individual 
computers.

We decided to build a small lab to start further testing.  I installed K12LTSP 
on a P3-900, 385Mb.  It worked well once we got everything figured out.  The 
demo went good enough that the Principle wants to get the word out to the 
paretns that we are testing/evaluating this.  We will be evaluating this hard 
over the next couple of weeks.  

I'd like to see a Christmas break conversion but that may be hoping for too 
much.

Very exciting!!!


On Tuesday 18 November 2003 04:31 pm, Petre Scheie wrote:
> And give us an update on how your demo for the board went.
>
> Petre
>
> Jack wrote:
> > Bob,
> >  Would you mind sharing what you did to get the terminals to finally
> > boot?
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:08, Bob Karschnia wrote:
> >>Thanks to everyone (especially the guys on IRC), I got the lab up and
> >>running!!!!
> >>
> >>On Saturday 15 November 2003 02:38 pm, Bob Karschnia wrote:
> >>>I brought my server from home and installed it in a lab for a test at
> >>> the local school.  Booted up 12 computers under IceWM and and the
> >>> school was excited.
> >>>
> >>>They have decided to set up a small lab to do some teacher evaluation. 
> >>> The board is meeting on Tues (18th) and I like to be able to report a
> >>> success by then, hence the urgency.
> >>>
> >>>Detalis of the problem:
> >>>	Standard config ... nothing unusual, server, 2 nics in server, hub, and
> >>>only 4 computers (starting small).
> >>>	Server is up and running.
> >>>	Clients will not boot from floopies
> >>>	Hangs up at "Searching for server (DHCP) ......."
> >>>	Same problems using multiple NICs on the various computers
> >>>	Ran all trouble shooting tests on LTSP web page and everything looks ok
> >>>
> >>>Did two addtional tests
> >>>	Test DHCP by booting the clinets under windows ... addresses supplied
> >>> to windows terminals successfully - DHCP appears to be running.
> >>>	Rebooted DHCP to get a clean start
> >>>		Verified log and no requests come across on floppy boot
> >>>		Remove floppy and boot under windows, request shows up in log
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I know it is in the clients but I have no idea what to do ... HELP!!!!!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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