Cheap notebooks as terminals?

[Bryce C]

I did a little experimenting with my laptop and LTSP server.  First,
make sure that the pcmcia network card is supported by pcmcia-cs.  You
will have to use an etherboot floppy because the network adaptor can not
have a boot rom.  You will also have to use a special etherboot disk
that includes pcmcia-cs available from here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ltsp/wireless_ltsp-3.0.3-i386.tgz?download
under the guise of wireless booting (yet another interesting
possibility) but I couldn't go further because my cards weren't
supported.

Good Luck.

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 10:57, alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> I am still in the planning stages to do an LTSP for my kids at home.  To save
> space, I was thinking of buying 150-200MHz notebook computers as the
> terminals.  Perhaps thin clients are cheaper than used notebooks but then I
> would have to use monitors, losing a significant portion of the space savings.
>  LCD panels are still to expensive to be an option.
> 
> Has anyone tried such a thing?
> 
> Alan
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