KNOPPIX Terminal Server - Revision history

Clinton: Undo revision 8269 by 121.100.50.7 (Talk)

2008-10-16T18:49:04Z

Undo revision 8269 by 121.100.50.7 (Talk)

121.100.50.7: varoudompas

2008-07-15T16:04:49Z

varoudompas

Beast in black at 06:15, 16 May 2008

2008-05-16T06:15:50Z

Plouj: /* Updating */

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‎Updating

Plouj: /* Configure Client Machines' PXE Booting */

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‎Configure Client Machines' PXE Booting

Plouj: /* TFTP Server Setup */

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‎TFTP Server Setup

Plouj: formatting

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formatting

Plouj: /* References */

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‎References

Plouj: /* Preamble */ specified version

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‎Preamble: specified version

Plouj: /* Configure PXELINUX */

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‎Configure PXELINUX

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 ==Preamble==
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 ==References==
-* [http://knoppix.manty.net/ The KNOPPIXÂ® terminal server over SMB/CIFS page] - The place where all the starting work was derived.
+* [http://knoppix.manty.net/ The KNOPPIX® terminal server over SMB/CIFS page] - The place where all the starting work was derived.
 * [http://live.debian.net/ Debian Live]
 * [http://www.mgr3.k12.mo.us/~rjn103s/HybridNotes-20060504-1.pdf Hybrid Booting Model]

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 ==Preamble==
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 ==References==
-* [http://knoppix.manty.net/ The KNOPPIX® terminal server over SMB/CIFS page] - The place where all the starting work was derived.
+* [http://knoppix.manty.net/ The KNOPPIXÂ® terminal server over SMB/CIFS page] - The place where all the starting work was derived.
 * [http://live.debian.net/ Debian Live]
 * [http://www.mgr3.k12.mo.us/~rjn103s/HybridNotes-20060504-1.pdf Hybrid Booting Model]

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 *enjoy!
 == Updating ==
 Updating the Knoppix Terminal server to newer versions of Knoppix is difficult, but theoretically doable. In general, you have to re-do the following steps:

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 == Updating ==
-Updating the Knoppix Terminal server to newer versions of Knoppix is doable. You only have to re-do the following steps:
+Updating the Knoppix Terminal server to newer versions of Knoppix is difficult, but theoretically doable. In general, you have to re-do the following steps:
 * repeat the [[#Samba Share Setup]] to create a share for storing the new Knoppix disk image
 * re-do the [[#Setting Up Knoppix Boot files]] step in new directories
-** this actually might not work since the miniroot hasn't been updated to the latest Knoppix version, yet
+** this is where it gets hard. There is no updated miniroot available for CIFS network booting. Based on initial investigation, creating an updated miniroot for Knoppix 5.3.1 will be non-trivial. One could start this task by examining the differences between the vanilla 5.1.1 miniroot and the cifs 5.1.1 miniroot as follows:
 * finally [[#Configure PXELINUX]] to add a new menu entry to point to the new boot files

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    APPEND secure nfsdir=//192.168.12.253/knoppix_share-5.1.1 nodhcp lang=en ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init apm=poweroff nomce vga=791 initrd=miniroot-5.1.1.gz quiet 2 BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
-== Configure Client Machines' PXE Booting ==
+== Configure Client Machines to boot from PXE ==
 This is a crucial step. Unless your machines can actually boot from the network,
 none of the above is going to be of any use!

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 and how you run it (inetd, xinetd, init daemon, ...).
-For example, tftp-hpa can be started from inetd with this line:
+For example, tftp-hpa can be started from inetd with this line in <tt>/etc/inetd.conf</tt>:
   tftp           dgram   udp     wait    root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot

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 We start by configuring a TFTP server. It will serve the bootloader (PXELINUX) files which our client machines will load from the network and run even before starting the Linux/KNOPPIX kernel.
-For this guide, we want our TFTP server to use /var/lib/tftpboot/ as the root directory.
+For this guide, we want our TFTP server to use <tt>/var/lib/tftpboot/</tt> as the root directory.
 How you configure that depends on which tftp server you use (tftp-hpa, atftp, or other)
 and how you run it (inetd, xinetd, init daemon, ...).
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 Thus we configure PXELINUX with relevant information.
-Add the following lines to your /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file:
+Add the following lines to your <tt>/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default</tt> file:
    LABEL Knoppix 5.1.1 CIFS
    KERNEL knoppix/kernel-5.1.1
    APPEND secure nfsdir=//192.168.12.253/knoppix_share-5.1.1 nodhcp lang=en ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init apm=poweroff nomce vga=791 initrd=miniroot-5.1.1.gz quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
-'''Note:''' the above APPEND line must appear as a single line in your pxelinux.cfg/default file
+'''Note:''' the above APPEND line must appear as a single line in your <tt>pxelinux.cfg/default</tt> file
-If you would like to have a text-only client terminal, then you can make a copy of the above text in the /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file and just add "2" to the knoppix options:
+If you would like to have a text-only client terminal, then you can make a copy of the above text in the <tt>/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default</tt> file and just add "2" to the knoppix options:
    LABEL Knoppix 5.1.1 CIFS
    KERNEL knoppix/kernel-5.1.1

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 * [http://live.debian.net/ Debian Live]
 * [http://www.mgr3.k12.mo.us/~rjn103s/HybridNotes-20060504-1.pdf Hybrid Booting Model]
 * [http://www.kegel.com/linux/pxe.html Remote Network Boot via PXE]
 * [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp/ tftp-hpa]

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 ==Preamble==
-*This page describes how to boot KNOPPIX off the network using Samba (as opposed to NFS).
+*This page describes how to boot KNOPPIX 5.1.1 (outdated) from the network using Samba (as opposed to NFS).
 *The original author of this document, [[User:Rjent|Rjent]], moved his efforts to working on http://live.debian.net/ .
-*You are still welcome to contact him about the model however (please bare with him since he has a day job).
+*You are still welcome to contact him about the model however (please bare with him since he has a busy day job).
 ==Model==

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	'''Note:''' the above APPEND line must appear as a single line in your pxelinux.cfg/default file		'''Note:''' the above APPEND line must appear as a single line in your pxelinux.cfg/default file
		+
		+	If you would like to have a text-only client terminal, then you can make a copy of the above text in the /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file and just add "2" to the knoppix options:
		+	LABEL Knoppix 5.1.1 CIFS
		+	KERNEL knoppix/kernel-5.1.1
		+	APPEND secure nfsdir=//192.168.12.253/knoppix_share-5.1.1 nodhcp lang=en ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init apm=poweroff nomce vga=791 initrd=miniroot-5.1.1.gz quiet 2 BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

	== Configure Client Machines' PXE Booting ==		== Configure Client Machines' PXE Booting ==