[K12OSN] NorthTec MicroClient Jr

"Terrell Prudé Jr." microman at cmosnetworks.com
Fri Mar 9 19:15:12 UTC 2007


Jim McQuillan wrote:
>
>
> Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
>> If you don't have any EtherBoot clients, then Edubuntu is a fine
>> choice.  If you have a mixture of both EtherBoot and PXE clients,
>> though, go with K12LTSP, as Edubuntu doesn't support EtherBooting
>> clients out of the box.  You can make it do so, but you have to hack
>> /etc/dhcpd.conf.  But for that, I might be running Edubuntu myself.
>
> Edubuntu, since the 6.10 release (edgy) does support Etherboot clients
> out of the box.  There was a problem with the mknbi package on Dapper,
> that's why dapper's version of ltsp didn't easily support etherboot
> clients.  We resolved that last fall, and the fixed version made it
> into edgy.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org 

Oh, really?  This merits a test run, then, which I will do tonight. 
I've got a spare box that I use for playing with this sort of stuff. 
Thanks, Jim!

--TP




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