Diskless workstations enabled by default with netinst CD

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I did some test installations today, and am happy to report that the
diskless workstation environment is now enabled by default during
installation when installing the main-server+thin-client-server
combination using the netinst CD (lenny-test).

I have not tested if the PXE booting of these clients work, as I lack
the test environment for this.  But the ltsp-make-client script run
successfully during installation, and fill /opt/ltsp/i386 with
packages and configuration.  I suspect the resolv.conf file in the
LTSP environment is broken, but that is fairly easy to fix after
installation.

I also tested DVD installation, but that still have issues.

For some strange reason, cfengine seem to run ltsp-make-client twice
during installation.  The first one succeeds, while the second fail.
The last failure should be non-fatal, but I would welcome explanation
why and a fix to avoid this double execution.

What is left for the alpha release of the netinst CD?

Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen


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[Holger Levsen-2]

Hi,

On Freitag, 6. November 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I did some test installations today, and am happy to report that the
> diskless workstation environment is now enabled by default during
> installation when installing the main-server+thin-client-server
> combination using the netinst CD (lenny-test).

cool.

> What is left for the alpha release of the netinst CD?

nothing, as far as I can see. (except writing a short announcement.)


regards,
        Holger