hey guys, I know you don't normally do support or troubleshooting here but, I am asking here at the suggestion of AJ, I am trying to get KIWI and LTSP working with the guys over there. I have some VIA 533 micro thin clients from the LTSP projects direct supplier http://www.disklessworkstations.com that work fine with both Ubuntu's TC server and LTSP 4.2. When I load the netboot for 10.2 my client stalls after "freeing unused memory" and loading the mouse driver. I say "stalls" because it still takes input from the keyboard and when I push the power button it unloads some pci stuff and shuts off. While trying to investigate this issue I borrowed the initrd and "linux" from the 10.2 network installation cd (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-i386-mini.iso), I call the "mini" ,put those in my tftp server and it loads up just fine, of course it's looking for a network installation server which does me no good , but it loads. This leads "snorp" and I to believe it is in the netboot kernel description used by kiwi to build it's kernel. Neither of us has any kernel knowledge so I'm asking for the purposes of testing this theory further could one of you please take a moment and pull the bits out of the "initrd" from the mini that launch the scripts to start the UI for the network installation and send it to me? It would be hugely appreciated. If your in a teaching mood I'd love that too, we are in the irc room #opensuse-kiwi
If there is anyone interested in learning a little about KIWI please start with building a kernel description for netbooting. The one the LTSP group built for Ubuntu is tiny and they said they achieved this by bypassing the need for "glibc" ,I think, anyway that conversation was way over my head. We need a lightweight diskless kernel build description that can be applied to all versions of SUSE since this will be needed for SLED10 as well. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
