In this case he has locally loaded linux on each of the machines. Two really
quick ways to do what he wants is either of the following.

1. In the inittab file switch the machine to boot to default runlevel
three and put this in rc.local. 

/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query server.domain.com

2. The best option is to add a entry at the bottom of the innitab that
reads as follows. Then in the inittab make the default runlevel 5.

comment out this line at the bottom
#x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/perfdm -nodeamon

add this line below it.
x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query server.domain.com

Of course since he is using locally loaded linux he will not be
really using LTSP but the concept is exactly the same. The only thing
he needs turned on at the server is XDM, KDM or GDM and it will work.

 

Cliff Baeseman
Linux Systems Administrator



-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Libes
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10/6/03 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Boot from hard disk

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)

hope this helps
ML

> 
> Soon as we finish ltsp working we'll start the translation in Greek
and will 
> send it over. 
> 
> 
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