Back in the good ol' days of LTSP 3, I managed to have clients booting from three different flavours of LTSP, each the one it could run best on. There were clients which needed special versions to be able to boot or run, newer versions didn't run on them.
Well, I don't know if it's really necessary to totally switch back to 4.2 for your etherboot clients. After all, this is only the way they get their first boot image from. I used to have both etherboot and PXE clients for a while living happily together and getting each their specific kernel image. You just have to specify this in /etc/dhcpd.conf. But it's early in the morning, didn't have a coffee yet ;-) I even remember vaguely a discussion(?) about switching from one booting process into the other, so there might be a way calling PXE from Etherboot. If you can live with 4.2, however, it should be no problem to install it anywhere else completely separated from KIWI for those clients. Rolf Nicholas Metsovon schrieb: > Thank you very much for your reply. That's what I was afraid of. > > Does anyone out there have any ideas how I can go about creating an image in > SuSE that will allow etherboot clients to boot? > > Another option, of course, would be for me to install LTSP 4.2 for those > clients. I assume SuSE Kiwi-LTSP will allow me to run both concurrently, > won't it? If I have to go this route, is there anything I have to watch out > for? Also, is PulseAudio likely to work in 4.2? > > All help/advice will be appreciated. > > > --- On Tue, 7/1/08, CyberOrg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: CyberOrg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 11.0 Kiwi-LTSP and Etherboot clients? >> To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net >> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 10:48 PM >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Nicholas Metsovon >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I need to rebuild our main LTSP server, and I'm >> looking at both Ubuntu 8.04 and SuSE 11.0. After >> installing SuSE and setting up LTSP, I noticed there does >> not appear to be any images for our etherboot clients to >> use. Then I noticed on your http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP >> page this: >>> "Thin client can be any PC which is PXE boot >> capable, 128 MB RAM is desired, but you can test lower and >> see if it works for you." >>> Does that mean we can not use etherboot clients? Is >> there a way to build an image that etherboot clients can >> boot from? If so, how? >> >> KIWI only creates pxe network boot image, so we are limited >> by that. >> >>> Any help will be greatly appreciated. >>> >> Unfortunately I've never worked with etherboot image, >> so can't help >> you much even if there is any way. Do share with us if you >> are able to >> implement it. >> >> Cheers >> >> -J >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE >> NOW! >> Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open >> source project, >> along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for >> chronic lameness >> and boredom. Vote Now at >> http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
