Hello, CyberOrg wrote: > On 5/2/07, Peter Czanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> CyberOrg wrote: >> > I have been trying to get LTSP 5 working on SUSE lately and the very >> > initial test packages are up. >> This is great news. I have just one 'little' problem. It's based on >> kiwi, and I could not find a trace, that other arch than x86 would be >> supported. > > I guess all the archs openSUSE supports wil work with kiwi. No :-( From the kiwi spec file: ExcludeArch: ia64 ppc64 s390x s390 ppc I guess, becuase kiwi heavily depends on syslinux, and it's a package which is not necessary and this way not available on PPC. There syslinux / grub / etc. is not needed, as one can load a kernel image (vmlinux & initrd combined into one file) from the Open Firmware prompt using a firmware readable partition or TFTP (and I also saw an experimental version booting over HTTP). I spent most of today trying to eliminate syslinux from the kiwi spec file and get it built on PPC, but no luck until now...
> >> Did anybody test it on other architectures, like on PowerPC? >> I'm asking it, as booting there is pretty much different, than on a PC, >> there is no Xen (yet), bootable CD differs, no pxe-boot, but TFTP, etc. > > KIWI uses tftp to pxeboot. Kiwi is used to create the chroot > installation and pxeboot images of SUSE that is used by LTSP clients > to boot On PPC there is now pxeboot (it's an Intel standard ;-) ), but plain TFTP booting of kernel images works fine. BTW: porting to PPC would be easy now: there is no Xen yet (it's still in development), current kernel does not work in qemu, there is no vmWare, so basically netbooting, liveDVD and USB remains. None of these need syslinux, just the creating of a bootable kernel image... Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
