Re: LTSP in Lenny

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:27:48PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I did some initial testing of LTSP in the Lenny based Debian Edu, and
> fixed a few bugs.  I believe it is working when installed from the
> netinst CD and the DVD.  The following from the installation log
> confuses me, though, and I believe it will make it impossible to
> install LTSP servers using PXE:
> 
>   Jul 23 11:41:52 main-menu[919]: INFO: Menu item
>     'ltsp-client-builder' selected
>   Jul 23 11:41:52 ltsp-client-builder: ltsp-build-client options:
>     --mirror file:///cdrom --security-mirror none --mount-cdrom

> I've tried to figure out where the apparently preseeded value for
> ltsp-build-client options come from, but it do not seem to come from
> our preseeding.  Vagrant, is this from the LTSP package itself?  

i think we covered some of this in irc already...

that's the default value fo the ltsp-client-builder/build-client-opts
debconf question. you'll need to preseed netinst and PXE installs
differently.

also set ltsp-client-builder/use_cdrom=false
 
> Can we make it dynamically detect the presense of a CDROM and only set
> these values if not installing from the net?

clearly that's the proper way to handle it, but i spent several hours
trying to figure this out, and really got nowhere on it.

there are a *huge* number of debconf questions involving mirror
selection, and it seems like some of them are re-used for adding
additional mirrors, so it is very difficult to figure out.

if someone can figure that out, i'd really appreciate it, and try and
get it into lenny's ltsp.

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  vagrant