---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Valerio Pachera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/10/20 Subject: Re: Diskless Workstation - impossible to install To: lista debian-edu progetto <[email protected]>
Hi all, I make a summary of the problems I got with debian-edu. I had an old debian-edu installation that I moved in a virtualized envirorment. After a dist-upgrade the TC stoped to wirk fine: they load but when I try to login it fails and enter in a kind of loop mvoing from the black screen to the logn screen. I made a new installation on a small server (amd64 dual core). TC were working fine just after the installation. I wanted to have also the DWS (diskless workstations) but ltsp-make-client was stopping Setting up education-tasks (0.822.0.edu.etch.3) ... + chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 tasksel install education-workstation To complete the installation I had to chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 aptitude install debian-edu-archive-keyring aptitude install education-workstation After it, ltsp-make-client had worked. Oded Naven helped me in that and prepeared a scpirt that should work form the beginning skipping these 3 steps (I can't attach it or the mail gets blocked). Unfortunatly I didn't have time to test it form the beginning but I used to complete the installation. Fine, I added "nfsroot=/opt/ltsp/i386" to "/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default" like the wiky says. Question: why can't the script take care of that? Then I added my workstation to dhcpd.conf and set the right next server; I edited /etc/ecports substituting "@workstations" with "10.0.2.0/255.255.254.0" so I don't have to add the machined in LWAT. And it works: the DWS load fine and I can log into it. After that I tried to run again the TC and i got a bad surprise: IT'S AMAZING SLOW (something like 10 minutes) AT LOADING AND THE LOGIN FAILS. Please...give a good suggestion...I have no idea what can be wrong. ANOTHER NOTE: i installed the new kernel in in the LTSP envirorment and run "/usr/sbin/ltsp-update-kernels". This command overwrite "/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default" so I had to add again "nfsroot=/opt/ltsp/i386" to "/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default". It's not necessary that it gets overwritten. Can you fix this? Sorry if I repeat it but I REALY NEED THE TC TO WORK. Probably some file gets misconfigured during the DWS creation process. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
