multiple clients requiring different chroots...

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:13:58 +0100, David Van Assche wrote
> Thankyou Jim,
>    The group directive in dhcp should come in handy indeed. In the mean
> time, I finally got my configuration to work. What I was missing was the nbd
> image to be loaded from the correct port. So by editting /etc/inetd.conf and
> changing that, editing the kernel parameters in
> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default to contain nbdport=2001,
> and finally restarting /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd
> 
> I now have fat clients loading with fglrx kernel modules (they are stupidly
> difficult machines to configure, but now they finally work more or less as
> desired.) authenticating via ldap, and regular thin clients running
> everywhere else... The server is 64bit and has 8 gigs of ram and now 55
> computers are running without issues all off LTSP under one big subnet...
> I have not tried setting up smbldap for the few windows machines that
> remain, since I've not seen any working gutsy setups mentioned yet.
> 
> I can't believe I managed to get this far, gone are my days of configuring
> single machines... haleluyah!
> .... I'll try documenting my steps if there is any interest...

Any documentation I'm sure would be helpful to others.  I'm trying to get a chroot built
that will handle diskless remote booting for fat edubuntu clients.  I haven't been
successful yet, maybe some of the problems you ran into will also end up plaguing me as
well.

Glad to hear you got things working.

Jim

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