On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 11:46:46PM +0100, roman.meier@gismap.ch wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 05:02:56PM +0200, roman.meier@gismap.ch wrote: > I have applied the offline manual above fully for the first time. I was > able to apply it without facing problems. Thanks! > > Issue 1: > > I noticed when booting in the primary subnet that the pxe menu is > incomplete. It shows 'LTSP thin client' but 'diskless workstation' is > missing. I believe this is as a result of using boot parameter > 'edu-skip-ltsp-make-client'. > Do I need to adjust the pxe menu manually? What do I need to do? Run 'debian-edu-pxeinstall' on the main server to re-generate the PXE menu. > > Issue 2: [..] > However, again I'm facing issues with my thin clients. None of them is > able to boot anymore. The login screen never shows and I get a black > screen. I faced this issue before with a few somehow special hardware thin > clients but now all seem to be affected and on both subnets. No idea, I can't reproduce it. (All my testing is done using VMs in a VirtualBox environment which might explain the difference.) Just test it with an entry X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 or X_COLOR_DEPTH=24 (in /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf), see manual: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Stretch/HowTo/NetworkClients#LTSP_client_configuration_in_LDAP_.28and_lts.conf.29 Wolfgang
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