[K12OSN] dhcpd and tftp

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Rob Owens wrote:

>I need to clarify a few things to help me in my troubleshooting.
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>In /etc/dhcpd.conf:
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>1)  option root-path     this should be "<serveripaddress>:/opt/ltsp/i386", right?  (I am using i386 machines)
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>2)  filename      this should be something like "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-2", right? 
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>tftp:
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>3)  vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-2 should be located in /tftpboot/lts, right?  (tftpd is called with -s /tftpboot)
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>4)  In /tftpboot/lts I also have a 2.4.26-ltsp-2 directory.  I think this is only used for PXE booting, is that right? 
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>5)  Is there an initrd file that needs to be placed somewhere?  Perhaps with vmlinuz=2.4.26-ltsp-2?
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>cat /var/log/daemons/info shows me that my terminal is being offerred an IP address, but nothing else is happenning and the terminal doesn't boot.  I'm trying to figure out why.
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>As you can probably tell, I'm not using a default K12LTSP install.  Due to a limited supply of hardware, I am installing ltsp on top of an already-existing Mandrake box as a test.  But it looks like I'm the one being tested...
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>-Rob
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What does your client box say?  Where, precisely, does it stop booting?

--TP
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