[K12OSN] Macintosh Client Question

[Jim Kronebusch]

Thanks, I'll give this a try.  You should hear from me by next week if I
still can't figure it out.


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From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf
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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:17 AM
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Macintosh Client Question


> Jim...ok..can you take a machine with os7.6.1 on it...In my setup we 
> have 600meg hard drives..i use half for macos and leave the other for 
> swaop space..it is not necessary to do this..Once yo have 7.6.1 (even 
> 7.5.3 will
> work) you need to have stuffit expander on the client as well. stuffit
> expander needs to have its preference set to expand to a folder on the
> Macintosh 
> 
> ..i start appletalk on a linux machine (a pc is fine)and create a user

> named ltsp with password ltsp and put machkernelskipslatest.gz in it. 
> Then from the chooser i connect to the linux machine as ltsp pw ltsp..

> i drop machkernelskipslatest.gz on stuffit and it unpacks (hopefully 
> cleanly) on to the mac as machkernelskipslatest.. i rename it to Mach 
> Kernel and put it in extensions folder..
> 
> the mklinux booter has four pieces you need..the controlpanel goes in 
> control panel..lilo.conf and mklinus.prefs go in preference..mklinux 
> booter goes in extensions as well..
> 
> That should set up the Macintosh to double boot...check to be sure 
> that lilo.conf has these options rootdev=/dev/ram
> mach_options=ramdisk=8192
> 
> the sea.bin on the ftp site should simply do this for you..and the 
> kernel in it is designed to use normal dhcp on port 67/68. Lets try 
> that for now.. then set up the server.. which can be any pc using 
> regular ltsp..
> 
> this part takes about five minutes when you get usded to it..chuck
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