Am Montag, 21. Juni 2004 13:41 schrieb jitendra recd: > hello every one....plz help me guide through this.... > ive configured the ltsp & its runnin fine..... > what im suppposed to do is .....at the time of start up of client with the > boot floppy ,we should specify the IP,netmask,videocard driver. all these > entries & the details of the ethernet address should go on to the > server.the server adds on these details to lts.conf&dhcpd.conf > correspondingly.then the client continues further ...... > > i.e.everything should be dynamic & there should be no manual entry of the > client information in lts.conf& other config files. > > what my idea is ... can this be done manipulating the linuxrc&initrd files > which are used at time of boot?
No, not with etherboot. Etherboot needs a dhcp server. In case you manage to run etherboot without dhcp server, or run the wireless kit (which allows booting from floppy, where kernel and initrd live), you could manipulate the initrd to ask for IP data instead of using dhclient. You could as well ask for video server and other parameters instead of reading lts.conf. It think this is not a good idea though. You risk the configuration nghtmare of having the same IP twice (which to circumvent dhcp is ideal), you have to enter the config data at each bootup etc. In case you want to do this really, after thinking through it again, and well knowing this won't find much usage nor support from the LTSP users group, you should learn how the ltsp initrd works & change that. Further changes would not be necessary, provided you are somewhat savvy in shell scripting. Again, I strongly recommend to not do this. Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _____________________________________________________________________ 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
