[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.2.1 pre3, ready for production?

[Eric Harrison]

Jay Pfaffman wrote:
 > I have a what I think is a 1st generation iMac (it's that funny blue
 > color).  I installed the latest version available at sunsite.utk.edu a
 > couple hours ago; yum update doesn't get any new ppc stuff.  I hold
 > down the N key and get a network boot.  Forgiving typos, this is what
 > the mac says:
 >
 > /pci at 8000000000/mac-io at 10/ethernet::-1,yaboot.conf: Unknown or corrupt
 > filesystem
 > Can't open config file
 > Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.10
 > Enter"help" to get some basic usage information
 > boot:
 >
 > then I have to power cycle to try again.

Hi Jay,

The sunsite.utk.edu finished syncing just a little while ago. Just to
make sure you have the latest version of everything, could you please do
another "yum update" ?

You should have ltsp_ppc version 4.0.0.k12ltsp.2.4.2 installed:

	$ rpm -q ltsp_ppc
	ltsp_ppc-4.0.0-0.k12ltsp.2.4.2

The error "Can't open config file" is pretty suspicious. Double-check
that yaboot.conf exists:

$ ls -l /tftpboot/yaboot.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 319 Mar 13 05:21 /tftpboot/yaboot.conf

$ cat /tftpboot/yaboot.conf
#device=enet:
#partition=0
#you probably have to change initrd and image path to image=/vmlinuz-->
initrd=/initrd--->
timeout=10
init-message="Lumensoftware Terminal Server"
default=linux

image=/lts/vmlinux-ppc-2.4.22-ltsp-1
         label=linux
         initrd=/lts/initrd-ppc-2.4.22-ltsp-1
         append="init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0"


-Eric



>
> Any clues?  I've got a teacher at a Mac school who'll be psyched if I
> can get this going.
>
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:08:18 -0800 (PST), Eric Harrison
> <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
>
>>I updated several packages for the K12LTSP 4.2.1 pre-release:
>>
>>* dhcpd.conf & lts.conf changes to improve PPC client support
>>* newer version of scribus
>>* schoolbell included in the k12ltsp-education meta package
>>* the fedora-extras repository is enabled by default
>>
>>All of the Macs I have availble for testing will now boot
>>diskless "out-of-the-box", no configuration changes required.
>>
>>The only item left on my TODO list is incorporating the smbldap
>>scripts. Hopefully I can get that done this weekend. If I don't,
>>this will be included as an addon in the repository for this
>>release.
>>
>>Please test this build out and let me know of any problems you
>>encounter. If all goes well, this will be released as the
>>offical 4.2.1 release in a couple of days.
>>
>>To upgrade a K12LTSP 4.2.0 server online, install the latest
>>k12ltsp-release package and then run yum update:
>>
>>    rpm -Uhv ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/4.2.1beta/updates/k12ltsp-release-4.2.1-5.noarch.rpm
>>    yum update
>>
>>You can download the CD images from:
>>
>>    ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/4.2.1beta/iso/
>>    rsync -Pav k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us::K12LTSP-pre/ .
>>
>>-Eric
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>
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