Re: Diskless workstations

[vagrant@freegeek.org]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:45:03AM +0200, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote:
> thank you for the changes in dhcp.conf.
> 
> I think:
> 
>  option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";
> 
> insted of 
>   
>  option root-path "10.0.2.2:/opt/ltsp/i386";
> 
> works better for me. 

this is probably due to a bug in initramfs-tools, only recently fixed:

http://bugs.debian.org/387808

also probably needs the next-server dhcpd.conf option:

  next-server 10.0.2.2; 

...snip... 
> Should the call of: 
> /usr/sbin/ltsp-make-client 
> also be needful in the future?  

i think (post terra/etch) much of it could be incorporated into a plugin
for ltsp-build-client, see /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/plugins and
/usr/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/

live well,
  vagrant