On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:31:31 -0700, Craig White wrote > CentOS 5 and ltsp 4.2 - got an i386 client working - now I'm trying to > get an iMac (G3 384Mb RAM & 600MHz) > > following instructions here... > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/CpuArchitectures#LTSP_on_Latter_Day_Macintosh_G3 > > without special additions to dhcpd.conf per the above, the Mac client > simply waits on netboot (it does get ip address per logs)
See if you can get the /opt/ltsp/ppc tree and dhcpd.conf and tftp stuff from a K12LTSP server. My guess is you could drop the stuff from there right into your setup and be running (with the exception of some X11 issues). The tweaks to the dhcpd.conf only tell the server which directory to offer up based on whether it is an i386 client or a PPC client. This doesn't actually pass the info that lets the client know it should network boot. To fix that keep reading. I am not sure if the link you refer to has the most updated PPC stuff. I know the setup from K12LTSP will handle the boot from holding the N key. Thinking a little more I think your problem may be that you are not telling your Mac to network boot. You could try holding the N key on boot if you haven't already. Or if you want do the following to make network booting permanent for them: Boot with apple+option+o+f Type the following at the command line: setenv boot-device enet:192.168.0.254 Hit enter. setenv auto-boot? true Hit enter. reset-all Hit enter. The machine should reboot and now automatically boot to ltsp every time it is powered up. If this for some reason doesn't work run the same procedure but add ,yaboot to the first line like so "setenv boot-device enet:192.168.0.254,yaboot". I don't know why but I found sometimes you need to tell it to use yaboot to start up. If you just want to boot back to a local HD I believe you can enter Open Firmware and just type "boot" to get back to the local OS. Otherwise the cmd+option+p+r should zap the pram and you'll go back to square 1. Hope this helps you out. Keep in mind the PPC tree is a little older than the i386 tree. You'll also most likely run into issues with sound and won't be able to run teachertool as the PPC tree does not contain the VNC components. Other than that it works pretty darn good and make those old macs pretty snappy. Also the Bondi Blue iMacs (ugly green with 233Mhz proc) run perfect from square one. The newer fruity colored macs may run into some trouble with starting X. If this is the case you will be looking to create a custom XF86Config file. But you're better off starting a new thread to solve that if you get that far :-) Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
