[K12OSN] Thinstation

[Sharon Betts]

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Friday, February 11, 2005 at 6:42 PM +0000 wrote:
>Check the BIOS on the laptops to see if they will PXE Boot. I used my
>Compaq 
>laptop as a thinclient that way. Had to set the video driver to savage in 
>LTS.conf to make X work, but it did work.  If you care at all about the 
>batteries you might want to take them out. I am pretty sure that the lack
>of 
>any power management on the laptop as a client is what fried mine. Maybe
>not, 
>but it was good when I started and at the end of the day it wouldn't last 
>more than 5 minutes or take much of a charge. On the other hand, I have
>never 
>been too impressed with compaq's batteries. This is the third one for
>that 
>computer.
>
>Tim Kaldahl
>Maplewood Academy

Hi Tim,
	I really prefer local boot -- I assume my problem is the NIC type. 
Thanks for the warning on the battery -- were you running on power or on
the battery at the time of "death"?

Sharon 
MSAD#71 Director of Educational Technology
sbetts at msad71.net          http://www.msad71.net     207-985-1100
"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."    
Robert Orben