Hi there... u should really be using the ltsp fatclient plugin, downloadable from my site (www.nubae.com.) As u will have read from other users, the plugin works great and I've been using it on multimedia systems for over 6 months without issues. Email me if u get stuck...
Kind regards, David (nubae) Van Assche www.nubae.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Shrenik Bhura <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ernesto, > > I am trying to set-up a mixed thin-client and fat-client LTSP server on > Ubuntu 8.10. > > The thin-client part is working absolutely fine. > > The fat-client part just doesn't boot beyond dhcp and successfully > getting an IP. > I have set-up the 'fat' part following > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients and slightly > modifying the workstation script given therein but nothing to do with nbd. > It seems that it is getting stuck just while executing nbd-client .... > > I suspect it has to do something with > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/ltsp_nbd . > > Could you please share with me what changes, if any you made to this or > any other file to work around your problem. > > Thanks in advance, > SB > > PS: I have also directly mailed to a few of you who were earlier helping > on this issue, apart from through the list, as this is very urgent. > Please don't mind. > > Martin Vuk wrote: >> Hi Ernesto, >> >> Ok, I think I found it on Ubuntu. Once you have created ext3 NBD >> image, you should check scripts in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ >> I think it is /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/ltsp_nbd >> you should tweak lines approprietly from here on >> >> ... >> # mount the readonly root >> nbd-client ${NBD_ROOT_SERVER} ${NBD_ROOT_PORT} /dev/nbd0 -persist && >> mount -o ro -t squashfs /dev/nbd0 /rofs >> ... >> >> and recreate initrd with >> ltsp-update-kernel >> >> Note however I don't use LTSP on Ubuntu, so I can be far off. >> >> Martin >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _____________________________________________________________________ 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
