The thin client here is not running linux. It is running ncdware. It loads an X server from the server, as well as fonts and stuff. it does all this via tftp. It does not "mount root" on the server.
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:51:38 +1200 Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought the usual method was to serve up your kernel over tftp and nothing > else. Once the kernel is loaded, the root filesystem is mounted over NFS. How > do you know that it's getting the files with tftp? Perhaps you're barking up > the wrong tree, so to speak... just a thought. > > Cheers, > Gareth > > > > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 00:30, Chris Bayley wrote: > > I am trying to run up one of these NCD explora thin clinet on my > > fanless adventure. > > I can get it to boot from the nework and load it's kernel and start X, > > but once X is started it has a zillion mesages that it can't find > > variious modules / files under /tfptboot come flashing by. > > The files are all where they sould be. I wonder if it is about > > permissions on the files: they are 755. as a user I can read them, but > > from tftp I need to be root to get them - I suspect the X-term has the > > same problem ??? > > > > My tfttp runs from xinetd how do I set access for the files served up > > (i.e anonymous I guess)?? > > > > /cb > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
