Re: [Ltsp-developer] Location of lts.conf file

[James M. <ja...@mc...>]

iPXE looks interesting but I'm thinking asking people to replace their pxe
bootroms for ipxe is too much to ask.

Jim McQuillan
jam@Ltsp.org


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Floris Bos <bo...@je...> wrote:

>  On 02/26/2013 11:39 AM, Veli-Matti Lintu wrote:
>
>  Since in LTSP 6 we'll have to rewrite most of our code base,
> and all LDM_* variables won't be supported anymore due to libpam_sshauth
> / LightDM,
> so sysadmins will have to revisit their configuration anyway,
> (and it's a good chance to break backwards compatibility wrt
> configuration, removing ancient or undocumented stuff),
>
> I'm pretty much in favor of not using TFTP as the basis of our
> configuration system anymore, but instead to switch to using a (probably
> python-based) daemon that reads configuration files from the server
> /etc/ltsp/config.d/, and exports them to the clients upon request.
>
> E.g. a client could do from the initramfs:
> wgethttp://server:1234/config?phase=initramfs&arch=i386&ip=xxx&mac=xxx&hostname=xxx&...
> -O config
> . config
>
>  We wrote our own TFTP server to overcome some boottime problems in LTSP
> environments. We have some thin/fat clients that need special kernels and/or
> kernel parameters to work correctly. Since we have too many clients to so
> that it would be practical to modify pxelinux.cfg files manually, we have
> now a hook script for our TFTP server that fetches the kernel information
> from LDAP when the client requests the pxelinux.cfg during boot.
>
>
> Another option to easily provide custom kernel (parameters) would be to
> trade in pxelinux for iPXE ( http://www.ipxe.org/ )
> It can fetch its boot script over HTTP, as in
> http://server/script_that_generates_boot_instructions.php
>
> We use it in a product that remotely provisions servers in datacenters,
> and it works very well.
>
> --
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Floris Bos
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Ltsp-developer mailing list.   To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto:
>       https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-developer
> For additional LTSP help,   try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
>
>