LTSP: lost in a maze of twisty little scripts, all different

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Sonntag, den 16.08.2009, 08:32 +0200 schrieb Bernd 'Siggy' Brentrup:
> Hi list,
> 
> if this isn't the right place to ask this question, please point
> me to the correct one.
this one is as good as others (since i'm subscribed to it and am
upstream author of most of ltsp5 ;) ), though we have a sepcific
upstream ltsp ML at [1]
> 
> I'm trying to save the image of a 20GB notebook disk physically
> mounted in a thin client with only the network port to boot from.
> My problem seems to stem from the fact that in my LAN there is
> a DHCP server running dnsmasq which can't be used as the ltsp
> server.  Consequently I installed ltsp-server on a box that's
> used as a file server anyway. 
[2] might help you here ...

> 
> Up to now I've got to the point where IF-Config: eth0 complete
> shows up on the client's screen, but I don't find a way to
> specify the kernel parameter nfsroot=$FILESERVERIP:$ROOTPATH .
right, ltsp in ubuntu doesnt use NFS anymore, we use NBD which provided
to be about 10x faster (it has the drawback that you have to export an
image instead of a filesystem though but you can use union/aufs which
gets you immensely fast boottimes compared to nfs)

> 
> All client parameters from address up to domain are set correctly,
> but I can't get around these:
> 
> | rootserver: $DHCPSERVERIP rootpath: <empty>
> | filename  : <empty>
> 
> With DHCPSERVERIP != FILESERVERIP the screen fills up with
> 
> | nfsmount: need a path
> 
> lines forever.
right, nfs isnt configured at all since two years (changed with ubuntu
gutsy) in ubuntu ltsp ... [3] might help you here ...
> 
> Reading the sources led to this Subject :) 
> 
> I'm stuck and looking for a kind soul that tells me the cheat.
generally [4] has a good collection of ltsp help...
and there is also the upstream documentation (mainly based on the never
finished edubuntu handbook) at [5]

ciao
	oli

[1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss
[2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP
[3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/SetNBDRootSwap
[4] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP
[5] http://www.ltsp.org/~sbalneav/LTSPManual.html

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