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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Jack Lockard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacklockard@gmail.com">jacklockard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Brent Norris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent@brentnorris.net" target="_blank">brent@brentnorris.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">That being said, everything else has worked "out of the box" for me PXE booting minimyth on my Zotac ion. </blockquote>
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<div>I would love to hear if anyone has a complete PXE solution. I struggled for a few weekends to finally get PXE booting working with mythbuntu 9.10, only to have many things break on the first upgrade.</div></div></blockquote>
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<div>I've got it working. I'm using the older stuff from Mythbuntu based on LTSP. You use debbootstrap IIRC to create the base image, then set up the DHCP to point clients to your server and run the tftp stuff on the server. When a client boots it grabs the kernel and initrd from the tftp server then mounts the base image over nbd and an overlay using NFS. The base image is read-only and compressed via squashfs, all writes go to the NFS directory created per client machine. I upgrade by chrooting into the client image, run aptitude update; aptitude upgrade, then exit and run ltsp-update-image. The clients need to be rebooted after this. There is also ltsp-update-kernels in you need to update a kernel for the clients. Upgrades haven't caused any significant problems. </div>
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<div>There used to be documentation on the Ubuntu wiki for setting up the PXE/LTSP stuff. I don't know if it's still there. It was based on Hardy IIRC, but it works fine on the newer versions. </div></div>