On Feb 3, 2008 1:29 PM, Gavin McCullagh <<a href="mailto:gmccullagh@gmail.com">gmccullagh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>So, there are no firewall rules at all. This suggest firestarter is not a<br>problem at all. Is it possible you installed firestarter which broke<br>booting, then you tried various things to fix it, then removed firestarter<br>
which fixed your original problem, but now the "various things" are the<br>problem?</blockquote><div><br>That's certainly a possibility. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Can you explain in detail exactly what happens when the boot fails?</blockquote><div><br>Here's a recap (typed in by hand - there may be errors):<br>sis900_probe: MAC 00:2A:43:AE:30:94 at vendor 0X0400<br>sis900_probe: vendor :0X1039 Device 0X0900<br>
sis900_probe: RTL 8201 10/100Mps Phyceiver transceiver found at address 1<br>sis900_probe: Using RTL 8201 as default<br>rtl8201_read_mode: Medialink on 100Mbs full duplex<br>searching for server (DHCP)...no IP adress [repeat until fed up]<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>You refer to making changes in "etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf". That's not the dhcp<br>
config file in LTSP systems.</blockquote><div><br>I know. I remarked out (#) "authoritative" (along with every other line, for that matter) which I assumed would force the system to read the ltsp version. Curiously, webmin, under servers, only shows me the dhcp3 version - remarks and all.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> It's /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf. Can you check<br>that that file is present on the system? Could you check that it has lines<br>
something like this:</blockquote><div>It's on the system. Here's the whole thing:<br>==============================<br> <br>
# Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file.<br>
#<br>
<br>
authoritative;<br>
<br>
subnet <a href="http://192.168.0.0">192.168.0.0</a> netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a> {<br>
range <a href="http://192.168.0.20">192.168.0.20</a> <a href="http://192.168.0.250">192.168.0.250</a>;<br>
option domain-name "<a href="http://example.com">example.com</a>";<br>
option domain-name-servers <a href="http://192.168.0.1">192.168.0.1</a>;<br>
option broadcast-address <a href="http://192.168.0.255">192.168.0.255</a>;<br>
option routers <a href="http://192.168.0.1">192.168.0.1</a>;<br>
# next-server <a href="http://192.168.0.254">192.168.0.254</a>;<br>
# get-lease-hostnames true;<br>
<br>
option subnet-mask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0</a>;<br>
<br>
# filename "/ltsp/pxelinux.0"; [alternative to if/else option below?]<br>
<br>
option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";<br>
<br>
if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" {<br>
filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";<br>
} else {<br>
filename "/ltsp/i386/nbi.img";<br>
}<br>
}<br>==========================
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>and make sure pxelinux.0, nbi.img exist in /opt/ltsp/i386/.</blockquote><div>
</div><div><br>They were both in /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/. I copied them to /opt/ltsp/i386/ and ran dhcp3-server restart but no change on the client boot.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>We'll figure it out, it'll just take a little close examination.</blockquote><div><br>Thanks. I really do appreciate this!<br>David<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Gavin<br><br><br>--<br>edubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a><br>
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