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Knoppix Terminal Server after Hard Disk Install
Hi,
I am planning to move from Windows to Linux in my office, and found Knoppix to be the easiest solution (no problem for printer, sanner, network etc...). The idea is to set up a terminal server, and then use only thin clients to access applicacions (that is office tools + Web + intranets aplications + printers).
PROBLEM: if I boot from CD and start term server and log from client, etc... all OK.
If I install on HardDisk, and try to do the same, it starts OK (get IP, start loading all..), but stops when it gets to loading the grafical interface:
ERROR:
Portmaster started
Try to mount CD on 192.168.1.107:/cdrom...OK
Can't NFSMount Knoppix filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
I tried to reinstall serveral time, with different install programs (knx-hdinstall, knoppix-installer), with different hard disk particions sizes and formats (ext2/3, Reiser), with various network card setups,... and still gets to the same point.
I USE:
- 2 pentiums PC - network card Idemax Realtek8139
- Knoppix 3.3 Castellano (espaņol)
- got the boot floppy from bootdisk522.dsk (tried with others)
ANY IDEA OF WHAT'S GOING WRONG?
Thanks in advance.
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Junior Member
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Based on other similar threads in this forum, the problem is that it's looking for the CDROM but it's not there. One possible fix is to put the CDROM in. Another, apparently, is to copy the CDROM files to /dev/cdrom/ (or something like that). Another, is to use the "poor man's install" (which essentially emulates the CDROM from a hard drive file).
In any case, the client is going to be running whatever's on the CDROM image, not the hard drive install files.
I'm working on my own diskless network boot solution, using clusterKnoppix. I'm still not clear on a lot of details, but I think my best solution will involve customizing/remastering with "poor man's install" to get what I want rather than using a traditional hard drive install.
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Thanks.
But there must be a way to have it running in terminal server mode.
I have seen a demo based on Debian, but the guys there were not able to give me all the details about the client config.
I am OK with the "poor's man" install (copy of CD on hard disk) but I have 2 problems:
1) I have not been able to setup users accounts and config (with their own accounts, parameters, email config and etc...). Is there an easy way to do that?
2) Soft problem - you mentioned: how do I get extra soft I want on the server (Web server + PHP + databases, some applications etc...).
Thanks - Chris
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Senior Member
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What happens when you create a directory off of root named cdrom and copy the contents of the cdrom into that directory?
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