Hi,
I'm working on a project to integrate the Linux Terminal Server Project
version 5 into Red Hat Enterprise version 5 for our internal use.
(hopefully I will be able to share some of the work so that, if Red Hat
project management agrees, LTSP could be integrated into the
distribution). I've been working with Kent Baxley on this project and he
has relayed a couple of questions to the list for me, but he suggested
that I might get faster/better responses if I talked to 'yall directly.
Background:
LTSP is a thin client terminal server project for Linux. The clients
boot using PXE or etherboot and then mount a single, shared, read-only,
nfs root filesystem, client local configs are stored in a ramdisk
created by the client. The only distributions that I know of with
production LTSP 5 implementations are Debian and Ubuntu. Unfortunately
they are using klibc and initramfs to manage the early user space tasks
of booting, configuring networking, and mounting the root filesystem.
This makes them a not fully useful model for implementing LTSP 5 on Red Hat.
Where I'm at:
Based on Kent's advice I have a 32-bit RHEL 5 system. I have installed
mkinitrd/nash-6.0.19-1 (plus dependencies). I've created a client root
filesystem by tarring a system installed with just the required packages
for an LTSP client. I've chrooted into the client root and installed the
mkinitrd/nash packages there as well. Now I'm at the point where I need
to create the initrd image that will be able to handle the boot,
network, nfs root, tasks. Here are the constraints: I'm creating a
deployable package and I do not know the IP address or path of the
server that the client will need to connect to (the D/U version figures
that info out from the DHCP root-path option). If I include the dhcp
option in the /etc/fstab does it ignore the configured server and path
in the fstab and use what it receives from DHCP or does the correct
server need to be in the /etc/fstab?
Thanks,
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David Kennel
Los Alamos National Laboratory
CTN-1
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