Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mounting a local Hard Drive
Is there any way of mounting using the local device mechanism, I would like to also mount the local hard drive in a client. My reason for this is, i have a laptop which isn't overly powerful, but is ok for short term road warrior type stuff, but whae i return home I have a lot more powerful LTSP server which i would them PXE bbot onto and would like access to my laptop hard-drive to remove docs saved on the road. regards Patrick On 21/02/07, Peter Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/02/07, Ben Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I want to mount the local hard drives on the clients, here's why: We have a number of laptops onto which we have install our own compiled initramfs booted with GRUB. We have two versions of the kernel image, and some of the laptops need upgrading (20 of them). I want to do this by booting them as thin clients and them using a script to write the new initramfs to their hard drives. How do I mount the hard drives on the clients? Cheers Option 1. Run ssh on the clients and ssh in and use mount this is good if you have ssh running on the clients ie for local apps. You should find all the standard admin utils on the client image. (fsck, mount, cp etc) they are all part of busybox. Option 2 Run a terminal on the client (SCREEN_02=shell) then once booted press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and you'll get a prompt where you can do as above. You may need ensure the kernel has the hard disk drivers loaded ie modprobe, Oh and I don't know of grub and fdisk being aprt of the thin client image so you may want to add them. Peter. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV _ 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 -- regards Patrick Barber email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc Channel: irc.lug.org #sderby SIP:/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #332139 thought Is the light at the end of the tunnel an on coming train /thought /regards - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV_ 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
Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mounting a local Hard Drive
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:48:22 -, Peter Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try modprobe ide-disk, modprobe ide-generic , if that failes are you using sata in which case try scsi. Peter. After Jim's nudge to try modprobe ide, I did have a look through the modules, and indeed modprobe ide-generic did the necessary magic. All our laptops are now completely updated with the newest kernel image, with the minimum of fuss. Does this need wikiing somewhere? Cheers -- From Ben Green - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV _ 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
Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mounting a local Hard Drive
Ben Green wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:48:22 -, Peter Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try modprobe ide-disk, modprobe ide-generic , if that failes are you using sata in which case try scsi. Peter. After Jim's nudge to try modprobe ide, I did have a look through the modules, and indeed modprobe ide-generic did the necessary magic. All our laptops are now completely updated with the newest kernel image, with the minimum of fuss. Does this need wikiing somewhere? Yes. Petre - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV _ 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
Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mounting a local Hard Drive
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:58:04 -, Peter Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Option 1. Run ssh on the clients and ssh in and use mount this is good if you have ssh running on the clients ie for local apps. You should find all the standard admin utils on the client image. (fsck, mount, cp etc) they are all part of busybox. Option 2 Run a terminal on the client (SCREEN_02=shell) then once booted press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and you'll get a prompt where you can do as above. You may need ensure the kernel has the hard disk drivers loaded ie modprobe, Oh and I don't know of grub and fdisk being aprt of the thin client image so you may want to add them. Peter Cheers Peter, should have realised I should give more detail. I was aware how to get a shell on the clients, no problem there, the trouble is mounting the drive. There is no /dev/hda1 as I would have expected. What driver should I load though? I really haven't a clue how to tell! It's always just worked with Linux for me, so I don't know how to do it :( I can add things in to the thin client tree easily enough too, but won't need GRUB and fdisk, just cp, which I am pretty sure is already there. Thanks for the help though Peter. I am using LTSP-4.2 btw. -- From Ben Green - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV _ 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
Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mounting a local Hard Drive
On 21/02/07, Ben Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:58:04 -, Peter Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Option 1. Run ssh on the clients and ssh in and use mount this is good if you have ssh running on the clients ie for local apps. You should find all the standard admin utils on the client image. (fsck, mount, cp etc) they are all part of busybox. Option 2 Run a terminal on the client (SCREEN_02=shell) then once booted press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and you'll get a prompt where you can do as above. You may need ensure the kernel has the hard disk drivers loaded ie modprobe, Oh and I don't know of grub and fdisk being aprt of the thin client image so you may want to add them. Peter Cheers Peter, should have realised I should give more detail. I was aware how to get a shell on the clients, no problem there, the trouble is mounting the drive. There is no /dev/hda1 as I would have expected. What driver should I load though? I really haven't a clue how to tell! It's always just worked with Linux for me, so I don't know how to do it :( I can add things in to the thin client tree easily enough too, but won't need GRUB and fdisk, just cp, which I am pretty sure is already there. Thanks for the help though Peter. I am using LTSP-4.2 btw. Try modprobe ide-disk, modprobe ide-generic , if that failes are you using sata in which case try scsi. Peter. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV _ 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
Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mounting a local Hard Drive
On Thursday 22 February 2007 05:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Run ssh on the clients and ssh in and use mount this is good if you have ssh running on the clients ie for local apps. You should find all the standard admin utils on the client image. (fsck, mount, cp etc) they are all part of busybox. Option 2 Run a terminal on the client (SCREEN_02=shell) then once booted press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and you'll get a prompt where you can do as above. You may need ensure the kernel has the hard disk drivers loaded ie modprobe, Oh and I don't know of grub and fdisk being aprt of the thin client image so you may want to add them. Peter Cheers Peter, should have realised I should give more detail. I was aware how to get a shell on the clients, no problem there, the trouble is mounting the drive. There is no /dev/hda1 as I would have expected. What driver should I load though? I really haven't a clue how to tell! It's always just worked with Linux for me, so I don't know how to do it :( I can add things in to the thin client tree easily enough too, but won't need GRUB and fdisk, just cp, which I am pretty sure is already there. Thanks for the help though Peter. I am using LTSP-4.2 btw. Without going to look: I think modprobe ide did the trick. mail me if that does not work. IE you need a MODULE_01=ide in lts.conf James - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV _ 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
Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mounting a local Hard Drive
On 20/02/07, Ben Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I want to mount the local hard drives on the clients, here's why: We have a number of laptops onto which we have install our own compiled initramfs booted with GRUB. We have two versions of the kernel image, and some of the laptops need upgrading (20 of them). I want to do this by booting them as thin clients and them using a script to write the new initramfs to their hard drives. How do I mount the hard drives on the clients? Cheers Option 1. Run ssh on the clients and ssh in and use mount this is good if you have ssh running on the clients ie for local apps. You should find all the standard admin utils on the client image. (fsck, mount, cp etc) they are all part of busybox. Option 2 Run a terminal on the client (SCREEN_02=shell) then once booted press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and you'll get a prompt where you can do as above. You may need ensure the kernel has the hard disk drivers loaded ie modprobe, Oh and I don't know of grub and fdisk being aprt of the thin client image so you may want to add them. Peter. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV _ 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
