[K12OSN] Re: Running in to an Edubuntu Wall
R. Scott Belford
scott at hosef.org
Sun Aug 6 22:29:03 UTC 2006
Jim McQuillan wrote:
> On Fri, August 4, 2006 4:38 pm, pogson wrote:
>> "R. Scott Belford" <scott at hosef.org> wrote:
>>
>> 1. ebnet and UBF floppies do not boot clients. They produce the error
>> "loading 192.168.0.254:/pxelinux.0.......error, not a valid image"
>> The same clients boot great with a PXE enabled NIC.
>
> Etherboot is expecting a 'NBI Tagged kernel'. pxelinux.0 isn't that. I
> think that newer versions of Etherboot are capable of loading a PXE boot
> loader, but i've not tried it myself.
I wonder if there is an newer EB boot diskette that integrates the newer
version.
>
>> 2. eth0 has to be configured, and dhcp likely has to be edited
>> 3. Clients that work great with K12LTSP will not work as well with
>> Edubuntu. I had to use VESA emulation for some of my workhorses.
>
> Which version of K12LTSP ?
This client has booted with all prior versions of the K12LTSP. (that I
have tried)
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>
> the LTSP that is included in Dapper is fairly good, but not quite
> feature-complete when compared to LTSP-4.2. The LTSP that will ship with
> Edgy will be MUCH better. Also, we're now in the process of switching
> LTSP.org's implementation to be based on the work that Matt and Oliver did
> to get LTSP into Ubuntu. Soon, they will be nearly identical, which will
> allow us to focus on the parts of LTSP that really make it special.
This is clearly a more impressive undertaking than I understand. Well
done, keep up the good work, and let me us know if testing help is needed.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
--scott
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