Thanks, Jim I'll give that 'cat' a go :-).

Gavin.

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 08:27 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Gavin,
> 
> In the /opt/ltsp/pkg_cache directory, where you got the .tgz files from,
> you should also have a .ltsp file for each of the .tgz files.  You need to
> cat all of those .ltsp files together into a packages.list file.
> 
>    cat *.ltsp >packages.list
> 
> Drop that file into the pkg_cache directory on your other server, and you
> should be good to go.
> 
> If you don't have the .ltsp files, you  should also be able to grab the
> packages.list file from the ltsp package mirror like this:
> 
>    wget http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/ltsp-4.2/packages.list
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, June 20, 2006 6:36 am, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > I have two (potential) ltsp servers/workstations on dialup.  I
> > downloaded ltspadmin and then used it to grab all the necessary ltsp
> > files (tgz files) to the first PC.  Then I went through the
> > configuration/installation via ltspcfg.  Then I tried copying all the
> > ltsp tgz files from /opt/lstp across to the second server by burning to
> > a CD and recreating the same directory structure as ltspcfg gave the
> > first server.
> >
> > I then ran ltspcfg on this second server, pointing it to the directory
> > of files, as per the install guide.  However, the script fails,
> > complaining that 'packages.list' can not be found.  I searched on the
> > first server and can't find such a file.  The closest is 'packages.db'.
> > In desperation, I tried copying this file and giving it that other name
> > and put in a couple of dirs under /opt/ltsp/ but it still gives the same
> > complaint.  Any clues why this isn't working?  Thanks.
> >
> > Gavin
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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