<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Robert Arkiletian wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:a18d8e260910111249n6d4123c5tf12586bad9d3b233@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:44 AM, raju VK <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vkr2007@gmail.com"><vkr2007@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have successfully installed the terminal server on my fc10 desktop.. Now my question is now I can use some vintage (1998/99) PCs as clients. The PCs has no option to boot from network. Other wise they are still functional. If </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You can use floppy disks with etherboot. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rom-o-matic.net/">http://rom-o-matic.net/</a> </pre> </blockquote> I still do this with some AMD K6-2's from that time period. The motherboard is the Tyan S1590S Trinity, and the things work *great* as LTSP clients. My choice of PCI NIC's (PCI has been the norm since 1996, don't bother with ISA cards) is any of the following: - Realtek 8129, - 3Com 3C905 (any revision), - Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B, - or *anything* that supports PXE-boot. If you want solid video performance, including streaming video, then consider any ATI Radeon from 8500 and earlier, or the Matrox Millenium G400. Both are excellent, both are supported in their acceleration modes in LTSP's X11, and I know from experience that the Millenium G400 *will* handle 640x480 video at full speed. For "good enough" video (i. e. OpenOffice.org, Firefox, no heavy video), the ATI 3D Rage Pro's are quite fine. Leave nVidious alone due to X11 driver issues and their policy of not publishing their specs (read: binary blobs only). They'll work...but only in VESA mode, which means they'll be S-L-O-W. --TP <div class="moz-signature"> _______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> </body> </html>