[K12OSN] HP Laptop as a thin client

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Someone else I know uses HP laptops that PXE-boot (Pentium III-1.1GHz,
512MB DRAM, IIRC).  She tells me that they work smashingly well.

So, why are such beefy boxes being PXE-booted to LTSP mode??  She does
this because the laptops were a donation, and not a singl one of them
came with a hard disk.  Laptop HD's are still kinda pricey.  BTW,
*there* is a great case for running the apps locally!

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Shawn Maggard wrote:
> My HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop PXE boots fine off my server.. just
> letting you know..
>
> On 4/2/07, *Sabino Sakells* <ecoblue at gmail.com
> <mailto:ecoblue at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The laptop has a built-in NIC. All the info I could find on it is
>     this : "Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)"
>     I'm just using the laptop's built in network boot. As far as the
>     server, I do not know.
>
>
>     On 4/2/07, *Jim McQuillan* < jam at mcquil.com
>     <mailto:jam at mcquil.com>> wrote:
>
>         Sabino,
>
>         What kind of NIC do you have in the laptop?
>
>         Is it a PCMCIA card? or is it built-in?
>
>         What are you using to boot, Etherboot or PXE ?
>
>         Jim McQuillan
>         jam at Ltsp.org <mailto:jam at Ltsp.org>
>
>
>
>         Sabino Sakells wrote:
>         > Hello, I am a Harbor City school student doing a project on
>         LTS, and I was
>         > trying to get my HP dv2025nr laptop to work as a thin client.
>         Unfortunately
>         > it got through a lot of the set up until it tried to mount
>         /proc, when it
>         > said "BIOS32 says PCI NIC, but no PCI NIC????" This laptop is
>         running
>         > Windows, and I was to understand that all I had to do was
>         enable network
>         > boot, put that at the top of the boot order, and it would
>         work. How would I
>         > fix this? I need all the help I can get.
>         >
>         >
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