Hello LTSP-discuss,
I am trying to set up LTSP to make some old hardware useful
again, for a family that cannot afford new pc or upgrades. The spare
hardware to be converted to a LTSP thin client is a ThinkNIC book size
pc. It has an ancient laptop harddrive, 256mb ram and a AMD K6III+ 450
cpu running at 367Mhz due to motherboard bus limitations. The target
server is Ubuntu 14.0.4, already doing dhcpd and dns and samba duties,
and it's no powerhouse - but I'm only trying to run a single thin client
from it.
The problem I have is this: on a test mule system, which is installed
with Ubuntu 12.0.4-not the actual Ubuntu 14.0.4 server which I intend to
deploy LTSP on- using Ubuntu supplied LTSP packages, the i386 kernel
images is not actually i386 compatible. I succeeded in getting the
client configured by udhcpd (not regular isc-dhcpd) to grab the
pxelinux.0 file via tfptp-hpa, but then the client ThinkNiC will not
boot the kernel. The error message indicated the cpu did not support PAE
and Cmov instructions, and that I needed to install "an appropriate
kernel." The AMDK6III+ cpu is i586.
I am seeking guidance on how to supply that i586 compatible kernel.
Building the client with the arch-i386 option does not -with these
Ubuntu packages at least- actually build an i386 compatible
client/kernel. I know that this problem has not been corrected in Ubuntu
14.,0.4 since I installed ltsp-server on a different test mule server
with the current Ubuntu distribution and encountered the same problem.
(I'm aware that there is another reason not to expect Ubuntu 14.0.4 to
work right now but for the sake of thoroughness I gave it a try.) Also,
trying to build the client with options --dist lucid and --arch i386
failed to complete. The script exited abnormally and never populated
/var/lib/tftpboot with any files.
I can't reinstall the target server with a different distribution which
avoids this packaging screwup - or if you prefer, this labeling
erratum. I can't upgrade the ThinkNiC's cpu. I need to get or compile
something that works. The ThinkNiC hardware works plenty well enough for
me to to install Debian 7.5 i386 and Vector Linux 7.0 Light edition.
I have searched Google and LTSP Discuss archives for this issue and
can't find a starting point for further progress. Thanks for any
insights, answers, or links to relevant howto's, etc.
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