On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:07:51 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:08:33AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > The clients will likely be older G3 iMacs -- those translucent > > > ones with the handles built-in on the top. > > ---- > > If you hold down <Apple><Option><O><F> you will invoke open firmware > > (that's the letter 'O' not a zero) > > > > at the prompt > > > > # the one shot method to network boot > > boot enet:ip_address_of_dhcp_server > > > > # the always network boot method > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2007-July/msg00372.html > > Perfect -- hopefully I can try this tomorrow. > > > > Or is there an easier way to boot/install from the Classroom server > > > PowerPC version from here? > > > > > > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/ports/releases/gutsy/release/ > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPCrossArchSetup > > says for the first client to boot from an ubuntu live CD. I assume > that means either the Desktop or the Classroom server at the above > URL. Does it matter? I wonder because the Desktop CD on that page > says "You will need at least 320MB of RAM to install from this CD" -- > I have not checked but poking around Google it could be that these > machines only have a tenth of that. > > Is there another way to populate /opt/lstp/ppc on a i386 server than > booting off a Live CD for PowerPC? > > Thanks!
If one were to follow the directions from the LTSPCrossArchSetup link, you'll see down the line that you are going to run ltsp-build-client from the LiveCD. This should build the paired down version of the OS you need for the LTSP tree resulting in a size similar to what is in the i386 tree. I have not done this myself yet, but assume this would be the best way possible to build the tree. It would be nice however to be able to build this from the running server in much the same fashion as you would build the i386 tree from a 64-bit server (such as ltsp-build-client --arch ppc). I wouldn't think it would be too hard to script this to pull from an apt repository to build (at least for a guy like Scott B, as for me this would be very difficult :-). Of course with some further thinking, this may be due to the fact that to build, you need a processor that could run the packages to execute the build, which must be why this is done from a live CD. This would probably be the same reason you couldn't build a amd64 tree on a i386 machine. With this line of thinking would it be possible to have pre-built trees in the apt repository? Along this line it would also be great if the default /opt/ltsp/dhcpd.conf could have a default configuration with the same "if" statements as k12ltsp so that if a ppc tree existed it could boot with default setup. These thoughts are of course all related to LTSP 5. Jim K -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
