On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:10 +0100, Peter Childs wrote: > I'm currently running LTSP 4.2 under Debian 3.1 on a load of thin > clients (ST320 meant to be the same as Jammin 125s) > > I would like to upgrade. I am thinking of using LTSP 5 and Ubuntu. > > I've come up with a number of problems and some of the docs are > getting a bit old and difficult to adapt to LTSP 5. So maybe there is > some major work there. > > Problem 1 is my clients have etherboot roms not PXE so I need to > modify the way that works. > > Problem 2. my Thin client server is different from my dhcp server how > do I configure my dhcp server up correctly so it can 1> server > different ltsp versions to different clients. Fortunately in my case > my dhcp server is running Linux and I can change it. But I would like > to have multiple thin client servers to spread load and have some > redundancy. (I have two currently that are selected at random using a > xdmcp broadcast using a modified startx script on the server) > > That seams quite enough for now I really want to be able to run test > LTSP 5 in parell to start with on selected clients get it working > check everything works properly before releasing it to the world (well > the office anyway). > > Peter.
I'm running LTSP5 at work with both PXE and Etherboot clients. The Etherboot clients use a disk from rom-o-matic.net rather than a NIC with an etherboot rom. I believe the TFTP server, tftpd-hpa, that is installed with Ubuntu's LTSP can handle Etherboot and PXE requests, just make sure your DHCP server is configured properly. Look for the file /etc/dhcpd.conf.example for how to setup your DHCP server. 'root-path' and 'filename' are probably the most important DHCP parameters if you have multiple LTSP servers so you can specify which clients boot from which servers. The following link has more information: http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/docs/ltsp-4.1-en.html#AEN524 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
