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Re: Installation problems and other questions...



On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> Le Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:38:51 +0100, Gavin McCullagh
> <lists_gmc@fiachra.ucd.ie> a écrit :
> > > - I had to manually build the partitions, as there is also another
> > > system on the hard disk. 
> > 
> > This is only my opinion but I don't think it too wise to have your main
> > server a dual boot machine.  I presume you're just testing it out but I
> > don't think the server installer was designed to dual boot.  It might be
> > wise to try and find a spare hard disk (about 5GB would be fine) to test
> > with (nb remove the Windows disk during install of course).
> > Might the initrd problem have been caused by this non-standard approach?

look at
http://developer.skolelinux.no/dokumentasjon/install_without_autopartkit.txt

There I have installed Venus Main+ltps-server on a laptop, in addition
to sarge (main installation), win2k and WinXP for test. 


> Yes, the problem comes from building manually partitionment... but it's
> strange
> it's allowed by the installer and has a known grave bug (hopefully I know 
>  a bit Linux & Debian...)
>  
> > > - The target configuration is a main PC (server) and an old one used as
> > > a thin client.  The main PC has only one ethernet card, but don't have
> > > any internet access. The installation of LTSP fails because of only one
> > > ethernet card, do you think it's possible to use eth0 for LTSP ? have
> > > you some hints to do that ?
> > You can almost certainly do it but again it's probably not that wise.  A
> > second network card should cost no more than about ?20.

If you have only 1 thin client (if I understand you correctly) there is
no problem using only one NIC. You have 2 options: 

Using a dummy interface dummy0:
 in /etc/network/interfaces: 
  replace eth0 with dummy0
  replace eth1 with eth0
 in /etc/default/dhcp3-server
  remove eth1 from the list of interfaces to listen to 
 
or you may rewrite /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf and /etc/exports to set the
thin-client on eth0
> 
> Yes, but in my case, the first interface is totally not used ! Perhaps I can
> tell eth0 is 'off' and use my network card as eth1 ?
>  
> or I will try aliasing as you suggests...
>  
> > > - what means the 'tjener' host name ?
> > 
> > It's Norwegian for 'Server'.  As far as I could hear it's pronounced
> > something like 'tsyainer' (Norwegians feel free to correct me).

Well we like to say "tjener" :) but yes, is norwegian for "server"

// faj



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