[K12OSN] Trouble with PXE Boot; Fedora 17

[Adrin Gharakhani]

If by EL you mean RHEL, then it's just too expensive for me (a one-person operation). If you mean SL (scientific linux), then last I checked it runs a much older version of gcc than I can accept. Fedora always keeps up with the latest and greatest. This is really ironic - a "scientific" OS falls way behind wrt compiler updates. Also, the upgrades are not frequent enough (based on what little I know about it), so even if a newer version becomes available today, I'd have to wait much longer for the next update. Finally, I am by NO means even at the entry level when it comes to OS stuff - I really just want to focus on my work using something I feel very comfortable with by now (because of the regular updates and improvements)

BTW, I installed the i386 version of vmlinuz and initrd.img, and the zero client passed that test; moved on to the next stage - it apparently wants more "stuff" from the installation package to get started (but I haven't figured out how I can dump the terminal output to know what exactly is going on at each stage). So, I'm still stuck and the saga continues :)

thanks

On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Burke Almquist wrote:

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> On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:29 PM, Adrin Gharakhani wrote:
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>> Burke,
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>> Right now I'm outside the LTSP realm; my attempt with the latter failed, so I tried what Gianluca suggested and just tried the basic steps of setting up a pxe boot (I don't think I've done any client building, per se).  I would have really preferred to use something like LTSP but unfortunately it doesn't support fedora 17 (the client side stops at fedora 14, which is an unacceptable option for me).
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>> So, right now I have a 32-bit thin/zero client and a x86-64 F17 OS installation on my workstation. The 32-bit version of F17 is unfortunately not acceptable for what I do (and use), so I can't change the ecosystem of my workstation. The only real solution for me is something that would allow me to connect my 32-bit zero client to my 64-bit OS, but I don't know if/how it's possible (perhaps some sort of a compatibility software or something).
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>> Any hope of getting LTSP for F17?
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>> Thanks
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>> adrin
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> I don't know about LTSP support on F17, most of the work on LTSP and Fedora/EL6 has been done by Warren Togami.
> I think I might just try to install it on F17 or F18 and see if I can as least spot what has been broken. I've just been messing around with LTSP on EL6 since that seems to mostly be stable and working, and I don't have any pressing reason to be using F17 or 18. 
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> I'm curious what you need in Fedora 17 that isn't in EL6.
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