Can't boot thin clients

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:36:57 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Rehan Afzal wrote:
> 
> > I got it to connect the thin clients.
> >    
> > Actually Edubuntu uses the dhcp.conf in the /etc/ltsp and I was going for
> > the default one in dhcp3 !
> 
> Sorry, I should perhaps have mentioned that.  It can be a little
> misleading.
> 
> > Actually you pointed it correctly, I can't boot any i386 clients with my
> > AMD Server !
> >    
> >   Any work around on that ?
> 
> I think Oliver's email here describes it fairly succinctly.
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2006-August/000214.html
> 
> We should probably add this to the FAQ.

You will also need to be sure that the relevant sections of /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf also
point to the new i386 tree such as below.

INTERFACES=eth1
 
authoritative;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.30;
  option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
  option routers 192.168.0.1;
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
  if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" {
    filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
  }
  else{
    filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
  }
  option root-path "192.168.0.27:/opt/ltsp/i386";
}


If this is added to the FAQ or wiki, it could also be specified how to run multiple
trees side by side.  With a little dhcp magic you can run specific clients in amd64,
i386, or kiosk mode all at the same time and specify which tree the clients boot by mac
address. 

Jim

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