Re: [Ltsp-discuss] copying ltsp config files between servers fails

2006-06-20 Thread Gavin Chester
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 08:36 -0400, Peter Billson wrote: > Gavin, >If I am not mistaken, the missing 'packages.list' is found on the > LTSP repository, not on your server. > Thanks, Pete. A trap for new players, eh? See Jim's post in reply, too. Gavin. ___

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] copying ltsp config files between servers fails

2006-06-20 Thread Gavin Chester
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 fi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] copying ltsp config files between servers fails

2006-06-20 Thread Peter Billson
Gavin, If I am not mistaken, the missing 'packages.list' is found on the LTSP repository, not on your server. If you are manually coping the entire LTSP tree over to the new server, there really is not reason to change where ltspadm points to. When you run ltspadm it will see what it need

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] copying ltsp config files between servers fails

2006-06-20 Thread Jim McQuillan
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

[Ltsp-discuss] copying ltsp config files between servers fails

2006-06-20 Thread Gavin Chester
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