[K12OSN] K12LTSP 3.0.1 - unable to boot workstation

Graham Bonham (graham@grabon.f2s.com)
Thu, 08 May 2003 00:29:20 +0100 

I've downloaded, burnt, verified and installed K12LTSP 3.0.1 from the 
www.k12ltsp.org download page.

As I understand it, it ought to be possible to boot a diskless 
workstation over Ethernet after having run K12LTSP_initialize on the 
server without giving the server any information about the workstation.

I have made an appropriate workstation boot disk for the network card in 
the relevant workstation.

I have a working network connection.

If, as root, I enter in a terminal on the server:

tail -f /var/log/messages

I see messages consistent (I think) with things working properly:

May  7 23:33:35 server dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from [my workstation MAC 
address] via eth0
May  7 23:33:36 server dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.252 to [my 
workstation MAC address] via eth0
May  7 23:33:36 server dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.252 
(192.168.0.254) from [my workstation MAC address] via eth0
May  7 23:33:36 server dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.252 to [my 
workstation MAC address] via
eth0

On the workstation I see a message:

Loading 192.168.0.254:/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp ....

The kernel never loads and all I get is a very slowly growing line of 
dots.  I'm not sure but think maybe I should be getting a sequence of 
different characters, e.g.: ./\. overwriting each other to show progress.

In any event, whatever the position regarding progress indicator 
characters, I'm getting nowhere with booting the workstation.

I get the same result with 2 different workstations, one with 24Mb RAM 
the other with 64Mb RAM, using 2 different network cards, so think I can 
eliminate the possibilities both of inadequate RAM on the workstations 
(the kernel's only about 5Mb isn't it?) and of a defective network card 
on a workstation.

Please can anyone advise what is or may be wrong?  Have any of you had 
similar experiences?



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