For some reason this does not sound like LTSP. Might be just me.? On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@freegeek.org>wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:13:42PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > > This is some where in the middle of my Ltsp server on XP experiment. > > that doesn't sound very fun... :) > > > I finally managed to get vmlinuz -2.6.26-1-486, > > initrd.img-2.6.26-1-486 and a i386.img (file system). For this I used > > Debian Lenny and installed ltsp-server package, and then > > ltsp-build-client --create-ext2-image. > > i haven't really tested this much since i wrote that feature... > > note that the --create-ext2-image option is a little different than the NBD > image that ltsp-update-image creates (or --sqaushfs-image). it uses > nbd-client's initramfs-tools hooks, and a plain ext2 filesystem, which can > be > tweaked by mounting the image. it was noticeably faster than NFS, too... > > > I wish to boot the ltsp-kernel using grub and load the file system > > (i386.img) over the network from a server (which ever). > > > > I have copied the said files except i386.img to another debian > > lenny's /boot, and modified the menu.lst in /boot/grub and created a > > new title. But how do i specify the root fs? > > why not just network boot them? > > > Normally it is 'root (hd0,0)' . How do i change it so that the > > i386.img gets loaded from 192.168.0.196:/opt/ltsp/image/ ? > > you'll need nbdrootd configured in /etc/inetd.conf: > > update-inetd --group LTSP --add "2000 stream tcp nowait nobody > /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdrootd" > > the commandline arguments you'll need to pass, which should already be > configured in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default if you're > using > the typical network booting: > > root=/dev/nbd0 ip=dhcp boot=local nbdroot=192.168.0.196,2000 > > live well, > vagrant > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- -- Michael H. Collins http://linuxlink.org
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