[K12OSN] PXE Files missing in Version 6

[Peter Scheie]

Check the md5sums of the ISOs before you go to the trouble of 
re-downloading everything.  Usually, a corrupt ISO flat out won't work, 
instead of leaving parts out.  But stranger things have happened, I suppose.

Petre

Ronnie Miller wrote:
> Yes, I had the install wipe the hard drive clean and install everything. 
> I did that twice with no luck, other than copying the Ver 5 PXE files. 
> Maybe I need to re-download the iso's again and redo my cd's.
> 
> 
> --- Original Message ----
> From: peter at scheie.homedns.org
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] PXE Files missing in Version 6
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 5:34:39 PM EDT
> 
> 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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