Many thanks Jim, for the direction on pxelinux. I have now got a client enabled via pxelinux.
If you don't mind me asking a bit more info, the client that I have started is a window session of the server. This is not quite what I am after. I would like the client to start up a copy of the RH9 operating system residing on the server, and operate fairly independently, so I can allow users to run some number crunching jobs locally on that client. The server in effect is a depository of the operating system(s) and file systems, whereas the clients would be freely run their jobs with data exchanged to the file systems on the server. Any idea how should go about it? Thanks a lot in advance. Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2003 13:08 To: Chiu, PCM (Peter) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PXE: E79 NBP is too big to fit in base memory Peter, You are using PXE to load a kernel prepared for Etherboot. You can't load a kernel directly using PXE. You have to load a 2nd stage boot loader, like pxelinux.0 or, you could load an etherboot image from PXE, which will then turn around and load a kernel. You can use the pxestuff package available on the http://www.LTSP.org/instructions-3.0.html page. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to try out the LTSP to set up a diskless client but have > come across some trouble and wonder if anyone can shed some light on > it. > > I followed the instructions given in > http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0-4-en.html to mount the ltsp > core and kernel rpm packages. I then taylored the dhcpd.conf to > specify the ip address for the given client mac address. > > When the client starts up, after a brief pause on DHCP, it flags an > error: > > PXE: E79 NBP is too big to fit in base memory. > > Attached below are my current configuration. > > Has anyone any idea what the problem is? > > 1. rpm -qa | grep ltsp > ltsp_kernel-3.0.10-0 > ltsp_x336_svga-3.0.0-0 > ltsp_x_fonts-3.0.0-0 > ltsp_local_apps-3.0.0-0 > ltsp_core-3.0.9-0 > ltsp_x336_vga16-3.0.0-0 > ltsp_local_netscape-3.0.0-0 > ltsp_x336_s3v-3.0.0-0 > ltsp_x_core-3.0.4-0 > > 2. cat /etc/dhcpd.conf > ddns-update-style none; > default-lease-time 21600; > max-lease-time 21600; > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; > option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255; > option routers 192.168.1.100; > option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.100; > option domain-name "gome.rl.ac.uk"; > option root-path "192.168.1.100:/opt/ltsp/i386"; > option option-128 code 128 = string; > option option-129 code 129 = text; > subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > range 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.150; > } > shared-network WORKSTATIONS { > subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > } > } > group { > use-host-decl-names on; > option log-servers 192.168.1.100; > > host node1 { > hardware ethernet 00:07:E9:06:9A:4D; > fixed-address 192.168.1.101; > filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.19-ltsp-1"; > # option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00; > #This is NOT a MAC address > # option option-129 "NIC=ne IO=0x300"; > } > host node2 { > hardware ethernet 00:07:E9:06:B6:D1; > fixed-address 192.168.1.102; > filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.19-ltsp-1"; } > } > > 3. showmount -e > Export list for pinot.badc.rl.ac.uk: > /mnt/cdrom (everyone) > /research/pinot @gripe_machines,@badc_core > /tftpboot 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 > /home/pinot 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 > /tftpboot/lts 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 > /opt/ltsp/i386 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 > /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 > /tftpboot/192.168.1.103 192.168.1.103 > /tftpboot/192.168.1.102 node2.gome.rl.ac.uk > /tftpboot/192.168.1.101 node1.gome.rl.ac.uk > > 4. ls -ls /tftpboot > 4 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:06 /tftpboot > 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 14:12 /tftpboot/lts total 32188 > > 5. ls -ls /tftpboot/lts > 3144 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3212300 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinux-2.4.20-18.9 > 3576 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3656209 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinux-2.4.20-18.9smp > 3124 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3193503 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinux-2.4.20-8 > 3560 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3637412 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinux-2.4.20-8smp > 1108 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1129628 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinuz > 1392 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1418240 Jul 21 14:12 vmlinuz-2.4.19-ltsp-1 > 1108 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1129628 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9 > 1196 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1216739 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9smp > 1100 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1122186 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 > 1188 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1211291 Jul 21 12:49 vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp > 1584 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1617920 Jul 5 19:19 vmlinuz-2.4.21-ltsp-1 > 1624 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1656832 Jul 5 19:19 vmlinuz-2.4.21-ltsp-lpp-1 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single > machine. 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