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

[Sameer Verma]

Philipp Hanselmann wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
Try:

mount cdrom 

sudo ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --mirror file:///cdrom


Sameer

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