Feisty:Why does the ltsp-build-clients script needs a Internet connection?

[Philipp Hanselmann]

Hi

Today we did a test installation at the teacher college. They using an
older Intel P4 server. After the installation was completed I was
surprised, because the thin clients didn't boot, They all get an ip
address, but the couldn't find the boot image (nbi.img)

I have installed Edbuntu may more than 40 times, and had never this
issue. This server has a slightly different motherboard than the other
two server which we used up to know for testing.

Just two weeks ago we were visiting the college with our Edubuntu test
server, and at that time all thin clients picked up normally ...


I thought I could be that the i386 chroot (/opt/ltsp/i386) doesn't get
installed correctly? Based on that assumption I was trying to build the
ltsp root again with this commands:

$ sudo bash
# cd /opt/ltsp
# mv i386 i386old
# ltsp-build-client

What surprised me, the building process needs a  Internet connection!
Like we have only a 64KByte connection this is not really an option. Why
is this needed? Can this be deactivated or redirected that he uses the
Edubuntu boot cd for this?

I will do tomorrow a follow up and do further investigating ...

I will do a re-installation and I case it happens again I will try to do
a kernel update with...
ltsp-update-kernels and ssh key update (ltsp-update-sshkeys) may
hopefully this is working?

I case the clients still not pick up, I will do the manually way and
will just copy the whole /opt/ltsp/i386 directory (800MByte) from a
working server (Intel,P4) to this not working server ...

Any ideas?

Philipp

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