On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Rainer Stumbaum wrote:
> Yes, that is how we do it here... we basically use LTSP as the base of our 
> computing cluster (by uninstalling ltsp-client and installing 
> ltsp-client-core)

oh, interesting. i love to hear about LTSP being used in clever ways. :)


> ...
> dpkg -P ltsp-client
> apt-get autoremove
> apt-get install ltsp-client-core
> ...
> So we do not have to maintain a whole setup of Diskless Server setup 
> scripts...

rather than installing and removing it later, why not run:

  ltsp-build-client --early-packages ltsp-client-core

and not install ltsp-client at all. :)


> > > How can we force it to use the first device?
> > > (still under the "nfsmount: need a path"
> > error-description since it shows the same error ;-) ).
> > 
> > you can do a couple things:
> > 
> > 1) set "ipappend 2" in
> > /var/lib/tftpboot/i386/ltsp/pxelinux.cfg/default which 
> > passes the mac address of the network card it's booting and
> > initramfs-tools 
> > will use the interface that matches that mac address.
> 
> This is what sounds more clever... I did not know about this yet, but was 
> wondering why the heck parameter BOOTIF was empty...

i forgot to mention you'll want to configure that so that it won't get 
overwritten on upgrades, in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ltsp/update-kernels.conf:

  IPAPPEND=2


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  vagrant

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