LTSP

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Allan wrote:

> I originally installed a clean Edubuntu 6.1 and had some trouble with a 
> larger drive, 200 GB.  I finally went to a 40 GB drive, and all went
> well. 

That's rather strange.

> The LTSP client boot was working correctly at first, from both PXE and
> Etherboot. After installing some applications the other day, 
> Eclipse, Java, etc..., I was not able to use PXE or Etherboot. I am 
> getting an IP address from the server, as before, 

Which tells you that a dhcp server is running and serving out ip addresses.

> but when it gets to the Loading nbi.img .., it hangs there. It does
> something similiar in PXE, just a different file loading.

Sounds like the tftp transfer might be failing.  You do not need tftp-hpa
installed for this to work, you do need tftpd-hpa (note the extra d for
daemon).  tftp-hpa is the client.  If you do 

	apt-cache policy tftpd-hpa

(or look with synaptic) you should see that it's installed.  If not, that's
a problem.  There should be a line in /etc/inetd.conf like this:

tftp        dgram   udp     wait    root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot

and the output of 
	ps aux|grep inetd
shouldl include a line something like:
root     15508  0.0  0.1   1596   460 ?        Ss   Dec21   0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

As a test you could install tftp-hpa and then try the tftp download by
hand:
	tftp 192.168.0.254 -c get /ltsp/pxelinux.0

(you need to change that ip address to that of your server).  You should
end up with pxelinux.0 in the local directory.

> Has anyone had this happen after installing other software?

No. Can you be more specific about what you installed.  If there were a
firewall in there that might make some sense but I don't see how installing
software could have this affect.

Gavin