On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Maurice Libes wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:42:16PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello list,I'd like to ask for some help about booting ltsp from hard disk. We > > have a labatory with 12 PC's and have installed LTSP here in TEI of Athens. The > > point is that the teachers do not like the idea very much or at least they want > > to have a backup, so we have installed Redhat 9 on each machine, just in case > > LTSP's perfomance is not good enough for their standards. Anyway, we have some > > plans about LTSP such as installing oracle in order to do the labatory for > > databases and some other things. At this time we are concerned about modifing > > lilo in order to boot ltsp from the hard disk and clients accessing their local > > floppy drives. I spent many hours searching in google for the first one but > > didn't find something interesting, so if there are any ideas please let me > > know.Thanks very much for all the help offered up to this time. > > if i understand,you want to boot ltsp from lilo on the local disk? > i dont know i it is possible since lilo find a system to boot > on the local disk, and the ltsp kernel is elsewhere on another server... > > i have the same conf than yours... > i can boot a local redhat system on local hard disk via lilo, > and when i want to boot on the ltsp server is is just sufficient to boot > either from a etherboot floppy or via PXE (which loads the ltsp kernel > via tftp)
You can create an etherboot .lzlilo image and add that to your lilo.conf file. Then, lilo will load the etherboot image and the etherboot image will turn around and boot a kernel via the network. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > hope this helps > ML > > > > > Soon as we finish ltsp working we'll start the translation in Greek and will > > send it over. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > ?? mail ??????? ???? ??? ?.?.?. ?????? > > This mail was sent through T.E.I. of Athens > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
