On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:39:13AM +0100, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote:
> Am 2010-01-26 12:20, schrieb Michael George:
> > I'm trying to move to LTSP 5 on my Gentoo system. I have the client
> > system built, the TFTP (tftp-hpa) and DHCP (dhcp) working to provide the
> > necessary files, but the terminal hits a kernel panic when it tries to
> > mount / over NFS. It says that there's no network available.
> >
> > I know the connection is good, because it pulled the kernel and
> > initramfs. It looks like it picks the tg3 NIC driver to use for network-
> > ing, but the system uses the 3C950 chipset and would need the 3C95x driver.
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone here uses LTSP much and might be successfully
> > using old Dell Optiplex GX1's and could perhaps give me some insight.
>
> I think i use one, and that it needed IPAPPEND 3 to boot because it
> couldn't get an IP after the PXE boot
> (IPAPPEND explained here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP#Adjusting ).
>
> If this does not help, posting a screenshot of the kernel messages
> wouldn't be bad.
Did you need this even without a proxy DHCP server?
Most of the docs I find on setting up LTSP 5 use a different DHCP server
(dnsmasq) and TFTP server (atftp) than I am using (dhcpd and tftp-hpa).
However, they should function similarly. I have LTSP 4 working and I
am hoping to avoid making lots of changes in trying to go to 5 -- in
case I have to fall back to 4 for the summer.
I'll try the IPAPPEND 3 option and see what that does for me. Then I
think I'll try different hardware and see if it behaves the same way.
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