Good good good, such a noxious trouble just vanished in the air! :-)
Thank you for your guidance, Shane Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang
Schweer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hans Ekbrand
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Peter Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Now I can
experience at home on the possibilities of LTSP I suggested the information
services firm I work for to offer to some of their customers.
Wolfgang Schweer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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|try it with the leading slash omitted (if your distro uses tftp with
|chroot for security reasons).
|
The first time I did this it would report a "TFTP error 1 (file not found)".
So I put the tftpd line in inetd.conf back to its original value, that is
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot, and voil�, the kernel was served on a silver tray!
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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|Troubleshooting is made easier, so why not.
|
If only would I report the correct status of my config files :-)
The second and third lines that follow did not have the first "/tftpboot"
statement, unlike the first one. I'm glad it did not produce too much
confusion.
|>
|> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot /tftpboot/lts
|> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot -s /tftpboot
|> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot "-s /tftpboot"
|
|"/lts" as the last argument should work.
|
|To sum up. The tftpdaemon must be set up to deliver kernels from the
|same absolute path as the dhcpdaemon tells the client to ask for it.
|
Peter Billson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Had something to do with the potato tftpd didn't support all the needed options.
|
The current (working) setting is:
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot
I did notice Debian's tftpd switches are fewer than RedHat's, which has an
(I guess) very useful debugging switch. Evidently there are more relevant
differences as well, differences in behaviour, since after the first failure I
tried to make the config files between the two as similar as possible.
I wonder what went wrong with the first boot I tried, which used the default
installation files with minimal changes. Too bad I did not save the first
files I used, but I must have changed a few lines too many. Tomorrow I'll
check RedHat's in.tftpd version number and try to understand what differences
there are with Debian's.
Again, thank you all. Tonight I'll probably have an unagitated sleep.
:-)
Sandro
--
Bellum se ipsum alet.
La guerra nutre se stessa.
Livio, "Ab urbe condita", XXXIV,9
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