64bit server and 64 bit clients

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Fri May 16 20:45:53 BST 2008


For 64 bit clients, you need to feed pxe with amd64, not i386. So change
your dhcpd.conf file to have /opt/ltsp/amd64

The /opt/ltsp/amd64 directory and the image should already have been created
when you installed the LTSP server.

Kind Regards,
David

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas Roussi <nroussi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I just setup up an LTSP server on ubuntu 8.04 and the edubuntu add on
> package. I installed everything but when I connect a client it gives me the
> following:
> PXE-T01: File not found.
> PXE-E3B:TFTP Error - File not found
>
> The server is 64 bit and the clients are 64 bit capable. I did some digging
> and I found my /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf. This is what it has:
> #
> # Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file.
> #
>
> authoritative;
>
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>     range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.250;
>     option domain-name "example.com";
>     option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
>     option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>     option routers 192.168.0.1;
> #    next-server 192.168.0.1;
> #    get-lease-hostnames true;
>     option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>     option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";
>     if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" {
>         filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
>     } else {
>         filename "/ltsp/i386/nbi.img";
>     }
> }
> I know the error that PXE is giving me is  because I did not run this
> command
>
> ltsp-build-client --arch i386
>
> and the i386 image file is not created. My question is: Is it possible to
> have amd64 and i386 image files and select which one the thin client uses to
> boot? Maybe by modifying the if statement in dhcpd.conf or have options on
> boot of the thin client?
>
> Thanks
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