On Thursday 20 November 2008 04:27:31 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Will do, but Im just annoyed by the individual ROM generation from > > > ROM-o-matic. My refurbished units all have different lan cards and I > > > was hoping for a universal diskette bootrom. > > > > > > Any help? :) > > > > I think if you download the gPXE source you can build yourself a > > universal loader. I forget the details, but I think it's possible. > > Thanks Steve, I didn't know gPXE was universal because I only downloaded > images from rom-o-matic. > > I was just about to pat myself on the back and congratulate myself after > gPXE was able to boot the whole lab in abuot 10-15 minutes. However, after > I rebooted and tried again later, my problem with the inability to get > addresses returned. It's apparently intermittent, and I think it is highly > related to either a huge system slowdown or dns. I don't know why it would > be related to DNS after all. > > Previously I configured my DNS under bind. However, I noticed that after > booting 4 or 5 thin clients, bind9 would magically stop replying to > queries. At this point, sudo would become very slow and few of my clients > would be able to boot or even get IP addresses from the server. > > Neither dhcp3-server nor sudo should be making DNS lookups. My hosts file > looks like so: > > === > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 mars.schoolsite.local mars > > 192.168.1.8 mars.schoolsite.local mars > 192.168.11.254 mars.schoolsite.local mars [snip] So who is mars 127.0.0.1, 182.168.1.9 or 192.168.11.254 Don't know if THIS causes your problem, I've never tried something as umm not- clever as this. But this is NOT good Now if you have DNS why is there an entry for mars in /etc/hosts. That is not BAD but certainly not GOOD. See /etc/nsswitch.conf To get your system running I'd start with bind DNS and /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost Then you can start to troubleshoot James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
