[K12OSN] PXE Files missing in Version 6

[Peter Scheie]

I'm not sure what went wrong during your installation of 6, but you 
should not be having those problems.  I've got two version 6 boxes, and 
PXE boot clients work right out of the box, as do etherboot clients. 
When you install ver. 6, are you wiping the disk and doing a clean install?

Petre

Ronnie Miller wrote:
> I'm a newbie to Linux and the K12LTSP having only built a couple of 
> machines (Linux) to see what it's about and now I've built my first 
> K12LTSP server and set it up for a local church.
> 
> The problem I ran into is that when I heard that Ver 6 was out, I 
> downloaded the cd's, blew away the Ver 5 server I was building for the 
> church and installed Ver 6. Everything went fine until I tried to boot 
> up my terminals. The terminals I'm using are older celeron 700 mhz pc's 
> with 256 mg ram that I took the hard drives out of and booted via PXE. 
> They worked just fine under Ver 5, but would not boot on 6. I got an 
> error message along the lines of "pxe boot image not found".
> 
> When I got to looking at the Ver 6 server, there was a PXE folder in the 
> tftboot folder, but there were no files. The "bootrom" folder appeared 
> OK, but the PXE was basically blank.
> 
> I finally (out of frustration) rebuilt the server with 5, copied the PXE 
> files onto a cd, rebuilt it again with 6 and copied the PXE files into 
> the tftboot folder. When I did this, the pc's would boot fine.
> 
> I also ran into a problem when I did "software updates". It downloaded 
> and installed a lot of updates. When I did that, DHCP quit working. So, 
> I rebuilt it one more time with Ver 6 and PXE files from Ver 5.
> 
> I have now delivered and set it up and it appears to be working, but 
> what is the deal with the missing PXE files and the updates? We're 
> exploring the possibility of using K12LTSP in our school system, but I 
> was hoping for less issues than this. Can anyone give me a clue?
> 
> 
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