Am Dienstag, den 11.10.2005, 17:41 -0500 schrieb Childers, Matthew: > We currently use Altiris Deployment Solutions for imaging clients > throughout the district. Typically when a client in the field needs > re-imaged, we will PXE boot that client and Image it via Altiris’ PXE > Server. Now that we have set up LTSP and are PXE booting w/ it, we > have found that we have to exclude the mac address of each thin client > in the Altiris PXE Server, so that it will actually boot from the > Linux Server.
I plainly have to admit I do not know that Altiris solution. I shortly looked into their website but did not find too much technical docs, just the usual marketing info. Anyway, a solution you could like would involve setting up PXElinux to have a bootmenu. This could either load Linux, boot locally, or.... well, hopefully start that Altiris program. Anyway PXE-boot is somehow tricky (as it is a multi-stage process), and I don't know details of that implementation. It would probably be rather easy if they provided a boot floppy for PCs without PXE, for example. This could be loaded via PXElinux(+memdisk) and as such boot the Altiris software after that is chosen from a boot menu. You probably need to find out which DHCP information exactly is sent over the network as well because you need to use a proper DHCP server :-) instead of the Altiris thing to make that work. I assume the Altiris server sends extra info via DHCP, so a packet dump of a boot process could help to figure this out. It probably is not stupid easy, but sounds "interesting". You could find information about PXElinux on http://syslinux.zytor.com/ Best regards Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ 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
