Re: LTSP installation

[abo minkirri apana org au (Donovan Baarda)]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:29:49PM -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
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> > If you want cradles at the "linux terminals", then you will either need to
> > run gnome-pilot on the local terminal instead of on the server, or you
> > might be able to do a remote-device-hack similar to the existing LTSP
> > floppy access using the network block device stuff.
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> 	Or just do a Network Hotsync, which has worked for 3+ years now with
> the underlying code that gnome-pilot relies on, pilot-link. I wrote a HOWTO
> on this awhile back.
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> > Running gnome-pilot on the local terminal instead of the server should be
> > possible, as the LTSP already has some support for running things like the
> > WM locally.
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> 	Overkill. Just run pi-nredir locally, which is much lighter than
> gnome-pilot and all of the required libraries it brings in with it.

it sounds like pi-nrdir is exactly the "remote-device-hack" I was talking
about. So it already exists :-)



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