On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:51 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Mo, 2007-11-26 at 19:14 +0100, Gregory, Joseph wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Your step by step description is not really what the folks at Ubuntu had > > in mind with their attempt at "hands-off", quick start installation. > > > > So I can now say that my process is stopping before it gets the > > initramfs via TFTP! > > > well, i *am* the "folks at Ubuntu" at least if it comes to LTSP for the > last two years :) and i know it works as hands-off solution for the > majority of people...
Ooops. Sorry if that came across the wrong way. I really appreciate the effort you guys are making and hope I can do my bit to promote both Ubuntu and LTSP! > if your initramfs isnt retrievd thats clearly a problem with your dhcp > setup, either your filename directive in the dhcpd.conf is wrong (which > is not teh case if the dhcpd.conf was the one from /etc/ltsp), your > inetd isnt runnning to start tftpd on requests or (the most common > error) you have another dhcp server running in your network that answers > faster and simply doesnt have a filename directive set. Working simply with a cross-over cable gives the same result so I really don't think this is a DHCPD problem > > note that setting up i386 clients on amd64 was never really a hands-off > install (not as much manual work as powerpc, but still, you have to > adjust some stuff (patches happily accepted indeed ;) ... )), even > though i suspect you might have found a bug in the setup scripts here if > there is no other dhcpd on a router or so ... Now you tell me, I presumed by prurchasing a 64 bit pc, it would be better for the server environment, now it may actually be the cause of all my problems :-( > if thats not the case, does your inetd.conf have an uncommented entry > for tftp and does it point to /var/lib/tftpboot as it should ? tftp entry is uncommented and is as follows; "tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s -v /var/lib/tftpboot" > ciao > oli Thanks and apologies for the "Hands-off" comment Joe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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
