That almost defeats the purpose of using LTSP in general, but it is impossible for me in my situation.
I am working with 2 test systems and will be handling a large number of systems soon. These systems come to me with a blank hard drive, no floppies, and no CD-ROM. At this point, the entire reason I'm using LTSP is to setup these systems. The entire point, for me, is to take a blank system from our supplier, plug it in, hook it up to the network, turn it on, and let my netboot routine take over. Once I get the local access problem worked out, I'll have an install script ready. After LTSP boots, my script will automatically format the local hard drive, install Linux, and install our company's software. I have a suggestion I got off the IRC channel -- I'm still working on it. (One of the people who gave it too me was rather short with me, and didn't want to answer my questions -- he kept saying it was all in the manual, but the questions I was asking were not in the manual -- some topics needed for what he was suggesting were, but not the answers I needed. Maybe a long time C programmer could read between the lines, but I couldn't find it -- and I read the manual cover to cover.) If his suggestions work, I'll let you know, and include the information here. Hal On Friday 05 July 2002 09:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking about access to local devices too. The simplest way I can > concive is put a minimal Linux system on the local hard disk of the > client with the necesary stuff to make that local devices (floppy, > cdrom, etc) works and load the graphical X from the ltsp Server. > > I will be working on that in the end this vacations if my time lets me. > So I can share any progress. > > Cheers, > > Offray > > El jue, 04-07-2002 a las 16:39, Hal Vaughan escribió: > > After reading over the linuxrc script, I've started to wonder -- > > before doing > > > a pivot_root, isn't it just an almost normal Linux kernel running on the > > client system? And shouldn't it be able to act like it's running on the > > client normally (except for swap), with the root fs in the ramdrive? So > > wouldn't it be possible to mount the local hard drive at that time? > > > > Would it be possible to do this by doing this: > > > > 1) Modify linuxrc in the ramdrive to NOT do a pivot root. > > 2) Sill mount any needed directories on the server. > > 3) Add an appropriate line to /etc/fstab in the ramdrive with the data > > for the > > > local hard drive? > > > > Hal > > > > On Thursday 04 July 2002 04:35 pm, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > I am looking for a good way to access my local devices on my ltsp > > client. > > > > I am using ltsp to install software on client systems. The idea is > > that I > > > > can take the client system, plug it in, hook it up to my lan, and > > turn it > > > > on and ltsp and a few scripts will do everything I need. > > > > > > Part of the setup is formatting a blank hd in the client system. I'm > > > looking for ways to access the hard drive on the client system to first > > > format it, then copy over the system files I will need, then install > > GRUB > > > > or LILO on it. > > > > > > I'm currently reading through the documentation on ENBD, but I'm > > confused. > > > > When I set up a box using LTSP, the box booting is the client and > > the one > > > > supplying all the LTSP info and kernel is the server. I'm not sure, > > but it > > > > seems to me that once I get this running, since the drive I want to > > access > > > > is on the client, for the purposes of ENBD ONLY, the client is the > > server. > > > > Have others used ENBD? Is this the only way or best way to access > > > local devices? Can I use ENBD to be able to format the drives in the > > > client system? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Hal > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
