Am Sonntag, 8. September 2002 10:03 schrieb Silvan: > I'm moving to Debian Woody from Mandrake 8.1. I installed it from > scratch in a chroot environment, and am pretty comfortable with it > already, but I still have a good bit to learn about the way Debian does > things. I've gotten everything important working except the LTSP stuff. > > Ironic that I wrote not long ago about how easy it was to get all of this > working. :) > > I've searched the archives, searched the web, and I'm out of ideas. I > didn't see a LTSP and Debian HOWTO. I haven't turned up much of anything > else. I found some troubleshooting pages, and exhausted them all. > > I installed... um... > > bootp_2.4.3-8_i386.deb
You don't need that, but you need either dhcp3-server or dhcp. > tftp_0.17-9_i386.deb You need this one only if you want to test your tftp-server by manually fetching the kernel. > tftpd_0.17-9_i386.deb This is the tftp server. It works, but is has been reported that aftpd and tftpd-hpa are more reliable if you use many clients. > nfsboot_0.0.7_all.deb This is also not necessary. > Sort of shooting blind here. Taking random stabs at things. I'm not > sure if I need nfsboot or bootp, or just exactly what packages I need in > Debian speak. Look at the dependencies of the .deb packages of LTSP and install also the packages that it suggests or recommends. These are: Depends: debconf, netbase, nfs-kernel-server | nfs-user-server | nfs-server Recommends: dhcp | dhcp3-server, ltsp-doc, ltsp-kernel-i386, tftpd Suggests: gdm | kdm | wdm | xdm, ltsp-localapps-i386, ltsp-x-core-i386, ltsp-xserver-i386, ltsp-webmin, netboot | mknbi, xfs | xfs-xtt, xsri Note that "|" means "or". BTW, the newest packages are on http://termserv.berlios.de. > Portmap is running, but I haven't configured it beyond whatever the LTSP > installer did. > > I installed ltsp-core-i386_3.0.0-1_all.deb and then ran the setup script. > I allowed it to make most of the modifications. I skipped the XFS > stuff. I've already configured that stuff anyway. That sounds good. If you find out that the installer did something wrong, please report it as bug to me. > I installed the remaining packages from the tarballs I already had, and > it's pretty much identical to my other LTSP installation. That is possible and should work, but the recommended (and tested) way is to install everything from .debs. > I made sure tftp knew where to find the kernel... > > > #:BOOT: Tftp service is provided primarily for booting. Most sites > # run this only on machines acting as "boot servers." > bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -i -t > 120 You need dhcp, see above. > I re-started inetd after making sure that was enabled... > > The kernel image is there... > > The terminal is getting its IP address, and that's where it stops. I've > been piddling for three days, and I can't get it to load the kernel. My > son needs to do some homework tomorrow, and I really need to try to get > this working. Did you activate tftp in inetd.conf? The installer should have done it, and the line should read tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot > I hate asking for help, but I'm getting desperate. > > Could someone walk me through it? Help me figure out how to configure > this stuff the Debian way? I think this has nothing to do with Debian, but with tftp and dhcp vs. bootp. Pre 3.0 versions of LTSP used to work with bootp too, but this does not apply anymore. I recoomend reading the troubleshooting section of the documentation. Apart from some Red Hat specific commands it is pretty generic. If using dhcp instead of bootp does not work either, use a packet sniffer like tcpdump or ethereal to find out what is really going on on the wire. If it happens that the installer script configured somethi Hope that helps, Georg ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
