[K12OSN] DHCPD saga III

[ahodson at elp.rr.com]

This is the content of /tftpboot/lts:
total 4576
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 Aug 14 11:56 boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  861505 Mar 13  2005 initrd-ppc-2.4.22-ltsp-1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 Nov 27 15:18 pxe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3788082 Mar 13  2005 vmlinux-ppc-2.4.22-ltsp-1

/tftpboot/lts/boot:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 14 11:56 bootroms

/tftpboot/lts/boot/bootroms:
total 116
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79575 Jul 22  2004 ebnet522.dsk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Aug 14 11:56 individual-images
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3277 Jul 22  2004 Readme.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    12 Aug 14 11:56 Universal_Boot_Floppy.dsk ->
ebnet522.dsk

/tftpboot/lts/boot/bootroms/individual-images:
total 6256
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17513 Nov 14  2004 16ab-1101.zdsk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16137 Nov 14  2004 3c450-1.zdsk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16908 Nov 14  2004 3c450.zdsk

.... 8>< ....too many...

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16190 Nov 14  2004 winbond940.zdsk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21959 Nov 14  2004 xircomtulip.zdsk

/tftpboot/lts/pxe:
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    68 Nov 27 13:50 initramfs.gz ->
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-smp-i686/include/config/initramfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13100 Nov 27 13:29 pxelinux.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Nov 27 13:03 pxelinux.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    34 Nov 27 15:18 vmlinuz.ltsp ->
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp

/tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg:
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86 Nov 27 13:03 default

As you can see the error might be that I don't have that bzImage...and
haven't had much luck finding it either. I am hoping there is a patch or
a make/install somewhere...
Cheers
alan
-=o=-

----- Original Message -----
From: Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:49 pm
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] DHCPD saga III
To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>

> On 11/27/06, ahodson at elp.rr.com <ahodson at elp.rr.com> wrote:
> > Hello folks
> >
> > Hope you all had a nice rest and a wonderful Thanksgiving.
> >
> > I am still struggling with the DHCPD set up in a school's K12LTSP 
> server.
> > ----
> > I created a symbolic link (vmlinuz.ltsp) in
> > /tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg, to /boot/vmlinux-2.6.17-
> 1.2174_FC5smp,> but nothing (good) happens.
> 
> That won't work, since the system kernel is outside the tftp
> directory, and it probably isn't designed to use the server's
> filesystem.
> 
> On my system, /tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg is a directory, where all
> the symbolic links point to /tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg/default.
> "default" is a text file, which says the kernel is "vmlinuz.ltsp".
> The symbolic link /tftpboot/lts/pxe/vmlinuz.ltsp points to a "bzImage"
> file in the same directory.
> 
> So, does this match your system's pxe files and links?
> 
> Calvin
> 
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