On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:22 +0000, John Horne wrote: > > > > I copied the /lib/modules/2.4.29-ltsp-1 (the name I used) directory > > to /opt/ltsp/i386; modified our PXE default config file and tried > > booting a client. The kernel seemed to load okay, but /linuxrc calls > > dhclient and for some reason some things like the root-path are being > > returned with a '\000' character on the end - obviously the boot fails > > since it can't find the right file/directory to mount. > > Turns out this is a problem (probably) with the dhcp client (dhclient). The stock LTSP 4.1 uses dhcpcd, rather than dhclient, which works fine. I suspect that a later dhclient version would also work, but my efforts at building ltsp from the LBE (on a Fedora 3 system), in which LBE itself uses dhclient rather than dhcpcd ?!?, we're going downhill quickly :-(
Fortunately I found in the archives the message from Alex Perry (dated 2004-04-09; subject 'using windows 2000 dhcp') about the dhcp problem, and a suggested simple solution of creating a softlink for the erroneous root path name on the ltsp server. Well it may be simple, but it works great! :-) I now have a 2.4.29 kernel nicely running with ltsp. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
