AMD64 as server...but LTSP clients complain about not being amd64?

Vern Graner vern at txis.com
Tue Aug 22 22:20:05 BST 2006


Ok, so I have an AMD64 3500 processor based server running Edubuntu 6.06 
natively installed on the hard drive. I used the AMD64 ISO media so as 
to get maximum performance from the AMD processor.

I then setup a little Dell Optiplex 800mhz PIII machine to use PXE and 
remote boot from the server. It gets an address via DHCP, then it spits 
out an error:

"This is not an amd64 machine. Please install the i386 version of Ubuntu"

This is perplexing, as operating as a Terminal server is resource 
intensive, I had assumed that using the AMD64 version of edubuntu would 
be appropriate to obtain max performance from the server hardware.

So, before I do a wipe and reinstall of the amd64 server with the i386 
iso, is there a way to get the server to give out the i386 image via PXE?

TIA! :)

Vern

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