On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 23:07 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > I've seen several suggestions for ways to make diskettes that will > > either boot from CD or network. > > http://rom-o-matic.net/ is a useful service here. I used that, though I suspect it's not quite working. I get to the point where it tries to grab a file by tftp and then it fails with a time out.
The server seems to show the request coming in Dec 23 20:45:00 corn in.tftpd[24442]: RRQ from 192.168.10.21 filename /ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0, but no response. I *thought* I saw a message indicating the server was unable to contact the client when it tried to transmit the file, but I can't find it in the logs now. Other machines on the network can contact the tftp server and download the file. > > > PXE booting requires an image to transmit. Making the image looks > like > > another involved project. > > You don't need to create the image yourself, there are ready mades, > e.g. from LTSP I used LTSP, though that raised its own issues, of which the 3 most important were unclear (at least to me) documentation, the fact that it didn't work with "testing" as a distribution (which is really a deboostrap issue), and the fact that this is probably more heavyweight than I need. It seems LTSP is oriented toward getting each X term to run in it's own separate environment, whereas all I need is for it to connect to my display manager (kdm) on the server. By the way, thanks for the tip about how to set that up. I filed some bugs against ltsp, if anyone wants more details. The maintainers have been very responsive, which I appreciate. I think my main problem is that none of my boot methods are working, which is really kind of weird. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
