[K12OSN] Dell Client boot trouble - NEWBIE

Kevin Haugh kevin_haugh at redlands.k12.ca.us
Thu Apr 13 04:13:59 UTC 2006


I've got a couple of newbie questions that I'm hoping some of you folks
can help me answer...

Preface: 
This is meant to be a quick test installation with a single server
functioning as both the LTSP server AND the home folder file server.  I
want to use older Dell as the thin client.

1)  Installed K12LTSP 4.4.1 on a server without issue.  Both NICs are
configured correctly with eth1 getting an IP address from our
campus-wide dhcp server and eth0 plugged into a hub;

2) Set the bios in the Dell client to boot first from the NIC and
plugged it into the hub;

3) Client begins the PXE boot process and DOES receive an IP address
from the LTSP server. I confirmed what I saw on the screen by using the
"tail" command suggested in the docs.

4) Boot sequence stops indicating that there was trouble mounting the
NFS share;

5) Went back to the web documentation and did the following...
	a) Added "/home   192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)" (without the quotes of
course) to /etc/export

	b) Made sure that /home is an empty directory on the LTSP server.
	c)Added the following line to /etc/fstab:
server:/home/     /home     nfs     defaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192   0 0

	d)Checked to make sure that there was entry in /etc/hosts indicating
that 192.168.0.0 was called "server."

6) Rebooted the client and received the same error.
7) Pulled up the NFS service to make sure it was running.  And it seems
to running correctly.

Clearly I'm missing something or have done something incorrectly.  Do I
need to configure anything differently because I want the LTSP server to
also be the home folder file server?  Is there something more that I
need to do with the client?

Thanks in advance for any help!!

-Kevin
Redlands High School
Redlands, CA




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