On Monday 22 January 2007 20:53, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Xavier Higgins wrote:
> > On Monday 22 January 2007 20:03, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> >> Xavier,
> >>
> >> Sounds like you are using an older kernel with LTSP-4.2
> >>
> >> You need to use one of the kernels that is provided by the LTSP-4.2
> >> packages.
> >>
> >> Check the 'filename' entry in your dhcpd.conf file.
> >>
> >> Jim McQuillan
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> Xavier Higgins wrote:
> >>> I'm running ltsp4.2 on a Gentoo system. I have a tiny crippled Dell
> >>> system as my client, crossover-cabled directly to a network card on my
> >>> server. The server (192.168.3.1) is set up properly (I hope) for a pxe
> >>> client. The Dell, when I boot it, gets all the way up to a point that
> >>> says:
> >>>
> >>> Running /sbin/init
> >>>
> >>> Enter Runlevel:
> >>>
> >>> and waits for a response. Whatever I give it, though, it locks up.
> >>>
> >>> How do I make it do something useful?
> >>>
> >>> tia,
> >>> poly-p man
> >>>
> >>> I don't know what output/files you want to see, so instead of making a
> >>> gigantic e-mail, I'll wait for people's input.
> >
> > [snip]
> > subnet 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> > range 192.168.3.100 192.168.3.199;
> > if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient" {
> > filename "/lts/2.6.9-ltsp-3/pxelinux.0";
> > }
> > else{
> > filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.6.16.1-ltsp-1";
> > }
> > }
> > [snip]
> >
> > This okay?
>
> Not exactly.
>
> What that's saying is:
>
> If you are booting with PXE,
> use the 2.6.9 kernel (which is old)
> Else
> use the 2.6.16 kernel (which is for ltsp-4.2, although a bit old)
>
>
> If you have the latest LTSP-4.2 packages installed, you should be using:
>
> "/lts/2.6.17.8-ltsp-1/pxelinux.0" for PXE workstations
>
> and:
>
> "/lts/vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1" for Etherboot workstations.
>
>
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > poly-p man
Oops.
The problem is that I have the 2.6.17.whatever vmlinuz, but not the directory.
How do I go about getting the correct kernel working?
See, I'm new to ltsp, but old to linux, which makes me look like a complete
fool relatively.
poly-p man
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