Hey all,

I couldn't find a way to bypass RIS, so I added a second NIC in the
LTSP box and set up a separate VLAN.

Now I have everything working they way I want it.

-- 
Thanks

David Kirk

On 5/26/06, David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey again,
>
> I've got my LTSP server running nicely now.  My test laptop boots off
> a etherboot CD and everything is good (well almost everything).
>
> One of my HP t5525 thin clients just turned up and I'm trying to get
> it to work with LTSP.  I tell it to boot from the network, but it
> seems to connect to the RIS server instead of downloading pxelinux.0
> from the LTSP server.
>
> This is what I've got on the network:
>
>    192.168.1.1 Windows 2003 DHCP Server
>    192.168.1.3 Windows 2003 RIS Server
>    192.168.1.23 LTSP on SuSE 10.0
>    192.168.1.98 t5525 Thin Client
>    192.168.1.99 Laptop Test LTSP client
>
> I've added the following to the DHCP reservation for the thin client:
>
>    012 Host Name kiosk1
>    017 Root Path 192.168.1.23:/opt/ltsp/i386
>    066 Boot Server Host Name 192.168.1.23
>    067 Bootfile Name /lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/pxelinux.0
>
> This all works well when I boot the laptop from the etherboot CD, but
> not when I hit F12 to boot from the network.  Instead, it goes to a
> menu with options for installing Windows.
>
> The t5525 thin client (according to dmesg) has a VIA VT6102 Rhine-II
> network card.  http://www.rom-o-matic.net doesn't have an image for
> that card.  I've tried a couple that have similar names, but they
> didn't work (or I've done it wrong).
>
> I thought that options 066 and 067 in the DHCP server would tell the
> clients to get a kernel from LTSP, but RIS seems to be getting in the
> way somewhere.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get my clients to boot to LTSP instead of RIS?
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> David Kirk
>


-- 
Later

David Kirk


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