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Problem booting thin-clients
I had a problem booting etherboot clients with Knoppix 12-12-2002. The client would not configure the X server properly. I even tried doing a modprobe for the the video card, but that resulted in errors as well. The weird thing is that the client and the terminal server have the same video card! Any advice?
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Knoppix with etherboot
If you do a hdinstall then you end up with a normal Debian config.
The terminal server in the Knoppix CD version is a script with some assumptions of your configuration that are not valid when you run it from harddisk.
One solution is to copy the BIG Knoppix file from the CD to the Windows C:\ directory (if you still have that) in the directory knoppix so the image will be in:
C:\knoppix\knoppix
If you boot from floppy (without the CD) then the image will be found and will be used as if it was the CD. Now start terminal server.
After this boot the diskless client and all will run OK, it is a lot quicker this way. I think this is the best solution for classroom project where more than 5 PC's work diskless.
Good luck and thanks to Dave Bechtel that gave the usefull hints.
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Can you help me with ethernet boot!
! have i host computer with 2 real tek 8139 NIc card and guest with 1 real tek 8139 NIC card! The computers a connected via "crossower" cable! How to set ethernet boot? what options to enter in knoppix and how to configure network kard floppy from www.rom-o-matic.com ? please help!
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Re: Knoppix with etherboot
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If you do a hdinstall then you end up with a normal Debian config.
The terminal server in the Knoppix CD version is a script with some assumptions of your configuration that are not valid when you run it from harddisk.
One solution is to copy the BIG Knoppix file from the CD to the Windows C:\ directory (if you still have that) in the directory knoppix so the image will be in:
C:\knoppix\knoppix
If you boot from floppy (without the CD) then the image will be found and will be used as if it was the CD. Now start terminal server.
After this boot the diskless client and all will run OK, it is a lot quicker this way. I think this is the best solution for classroom project where more than 5 PC's work diskless.
Good luck and thanks to Dave Bechtel that gave the usefull hints.
OK, but what do you setup on the server side? I'm confused, terminal server only works off the CD? What if my clients are running off the CD image (poor man's) and my server is from knoppix-installer (debian version). Can I also use clients from knoppix-installer (knoppix version)?
TIA,
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