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

[guillermo]

Hello
You've put forward a great question. When I first
installed edubuntu on an AMD64 I face the same
problem. All my thin clients are 368, what can I do?
It's suppose that LTSP is going to work on old thin
clients.
Luckily the solution is very simple. All you have to
do is reinstall LTSP (Download it from the LTSP home
page). 
/opt/ltsp/i386        Here should be your new
installation
/tftpboot/lts         the boot files. 
I'm using vmlinuz-2.6.17.3-ltsp-1 not pxelinux.0

Correct /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf to your new settings
filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.6.17.3-ltsp-1";
option root-path "192.168.1.1:/opt/ltsp/i386";

Edit /etc/inetd.conf
Look for the line
tftp           dgram   udp     wait    root 
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s
/var/lib/tftpboot

comment this line(#) or correct it to:
tftp           dgram   udp     wait    root 
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /tftpboot

Reset your PC. I don't know how to activate this
service manually.

Use ltspcfg (/usr/sbin)
 Create /etc/exports entries
Create /etc/hosts entries
Create lts.conf file

sudo gdmsetup
remote->style->same as local

Reboot your pcs server and the client and log in.
In spite of little problems it's working fine for me.
The real situation is a classroom with 8 pcs, all
working with edubuntu. The oldest client is a celeron
266.
May be there are better ways to do this. I would like
to hear from that.


--- Vern Graner <vern at txis.com> wrote:

> 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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