Re: Problem starting diskless workstation

[laget sebastiaan <skolelinux@gmail.com>]

I actually followed the wiki and bridged a network interface. it got an 
ip and crashed while unpacking the kernel image.
the LTSP server is workining for normal computers with pxe booting.

mariodebian wrote:
> El jue, 09-10-2008 a las 09:13 +0200, laget sebastiaan escribió:
>   
> > You mean you made a thin client in virtualbox?
> >
> > If you did, yesterday i tried the same thing and couldn't get it working 
> > either. Normal clients work perfectly, so it must be a virtualbox thing.
> >
> > Sebastiaan
> >
> >     
>
>
> In order to boot VirtualBox as thin client you must configure your ethX
> iface as bridge (br0)
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox
>
> Then configure VirtualBox lan as vbox0 for example.
>
> It works for me.
>
>
>
>   
> > Valerio Pachera wrote:
> >     
> > > No suggestions?
> > >
> > > 2008/10/7 Valerio Pachera <sirio81@gmail.com>:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Hi all, I'm trying to start a diskless workstation (DW).
> > > >
> > > > It find the server but is not capable to start.
> > > >
> > > > I read the message
> > > >
> > > > TFTP prefix: /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386
> > > > trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/01-08-00-27-04-49-0b
> > > > trying to load: .........
> > > >
> > > > There are some more "trying to load" but nothing start.
> > > > I'm using terra. Everything is virtualized by virtualbox.
> > > > The Thinclients start correctly (I have a problem on the login but
> > > > I'll start another topic for it).
> > > >
> > > > Do you have any suggestion about DW?
> > > >
> > > >     
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> >