On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jeff Jackowski wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Bryan Cruickshank wrote:
>
> <Mega snip> :-) </Mega>
>
> >I really don't have a good grasp of what the difference is between using
> >ltsp to boot the iopener vs using ltsp and etherboot to boot a normal
> > < snip>
>
> The only difference with the I-opener (unless I'm wrong) is skipping the
> etherboot step. Configuring the system to do that has been a problem for
> some, so I have finally done something that I should have done a while
> ago.
>
> I have grabbed images of my I-opener's whole disk and its 4MB partition. I
> managed to get bzip2 to stuff each image into 2.3MB. I think that just
> using dd to plop the disk image on /dev/hdb will make other I-opener's
> work, especially when everything else is setup properly. You can grab the
> image at the bottom of http://home.hiwaay.net/~jeffj1/ltsp/
>
> I'm running LTSP v3, and the I-opener has kernel 2.4.9 with the swap over
> NFS patch (but I haven't used that). The only reason I can think to
> upgrade that software is if it was needed to support a new X server, but I
> can't think of everything.
>
FWIW, I'd suggest that the option that gives the most flexibility is to
*first* load one of the Jailbait versions on the I-opener. Jailbait
includes ftp and ssh.
After the first time doing it, with this setup you never even have to
crack the case to upgrade a kernel. You can then change the kernel
whenever you wish. Boot into Jailbait on the sandisk (/dev/hdb), mount the
sandisk read-write, delete enough files to make room for a new kernel.
Ftp the new kernel from your server, edit /etc/lilo,conf, rerun lilo and
and you can boot your choice of kernels.
After starting with Jailbait, I began using the I-Opener as a thin client
first with Jim McQillan's kernel from the tar.gz package on the LTSP site
and later using a kernel I downloaded from Jeff's site. Thanks guys! I'm
now running a 2.4.19 kernel I compiled myself with ltsp 3.0.
This involves some extra work initially but it does help to
futureproof your setup.
Jesse McDonnell
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