On 11-07-05 03:29 AM, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
>
> Anyway, I SOLVED IT!!!
>
> These are the steps, in case somebody else has the same problem (having
> a non-i386 computer that doesn't know how to boot pxe but has a working
> Debian system with X and network). I also had the DHCP out of my
> control and the battery is dead so I couldn't set the default boot
> device to use bootp either).
>
> Disclaimer: Keep in mind that that is not the way the packages should
> be used. I'm not completely sure that a 'purge' will leave your system
> as it was before. You can also try a chroot environment with
> debootstrap or something like that to be on the safer side.
>
> 1. cheat :). Create a file named "/etc/ltsp_chroot" ('touch' is enough)
>
> 2. install the package ltsp-client-core, since it only checks if the
> file ltsp_chroot exists the installation will finish without complaining.
>
> 3. by now you will have many hooks into the kernel and your initrd. You
> don't want those because you will not be able to boot normally and
> because you want to use the client environment on your disk. So you
> have to "disable" the following files:
>
> dpkg -L ltsp-client-core|egrep 'initramfs|kernel'
>
> in order to disable them you have to see if they need to be commented
> out or if you have to add an 'exit 0' after the shebang (#!/bin/...).
>
> 4. reconfigure your kernel so that iniramfs gets built *without* the
> hooks. If you forget that step, as I did, you can always recover with
> an alternative kernel, if you have one, or with finnix.
>
> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6...-powerpc
>
> 5. since you've removed all the autodetection from the LTSP startup
> routines you will now have to write a lts.conf with at least these
> lines, so that the client knows where the server is:
>
> [default]
> SERVER=your.server.ip.address
>
> and make sure you do a ssh from your client (root user) to the server at
> least once before you try to do it with LTSP.
>
> That's it. I am looking at it right now. The Ubuntu LTSP server tells
> me I changed the default language and during the client boot I see some
> errors about operations being done on a read only filesystem. I know
> this is a dirty hack, but it works!
"That's it", heh, ok. :D
Srsly, thanks for this information. As a learning experience, I'm
actually going to try this.
--
Peter
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