RE: [Thinstation-general] The structure of ts.conf.buildtime

[Matthew E. B. <mbe...@le...>]

I'm doing CD boots rather than HD boot, but I had the same issue, and wound
up copying the thinstation.conf.example over the thinstation.conf.buildtime
so I could get a complete set of defaults.

Another thought would be to have (yet) another config file, such as
thinstation.conf.localboot to keep the structure of the
thinstation.conf.buildtime pristine as Miles wants it, but allow us local
boot peeps to have a well-defined place to put our boot-time defaults.

If implemented, this would change the precedence of the .conf files like
this:

thinstation.conf.buildtime (puts config directives in the boot image) 
thinstation.conf.localboot (default config, pulled from local boot device)
thinstation.conf.network (default config, pulled from tftp server) 
thinstation.hosts (contains host, MAC, and group mappings) 

Comments?

Matthew E. Bernold


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Dolinsky [mailto:r.d...@ff...]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:43 AM
To: thi...@li...
Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] The structure of ts.conf.buildtime


I would also like to have a complete buildtime.  It makes life a lot easier 
for those of us doing the hd installs.

On Thursday 15 July 2004 18:39, Mike Eriksen wrote:
> Miles and I recently had a private e-mail exchange on something else, that
> ended up being an discussion on the structure of
> thinstation.conf.buildtime ("buildtime"). We've decided to start it again
> here publically to get your opinion.
>
> Miles obviously wants buildtime to be as it is (otherwise he'd changed it
> already :-)
>
> I want to change buildtime to be as ts.conf.example. e.g. with the
> complete setup, which is perfectly possible as things are now. No code has
> to be changed.
>
> My arguments are:
>
> For boot from local devices you really need a complete buildtime, not just
> the cut down version with network settings only. OK, if you boot from a RW
> device, you may get around the problem by using a ts.conf.user, but for a
> CD there is no way you can avoid putting everything in buildtime as it is
> RO. Even with loadlin on a RW device a ts.conf.user is impossible due to
> the DOS 8.3 file name convention (and I guess the same goes for syslinux,
> but I never tried).
>
> Also it makes a lot of sense to me to build any image with useful
> defaults, so things can fail gracefully.
>
> Since all the ts.conf(.buildtime, .network, .user, .group-<name>, -<name>,
> -<ip>, -<mac>) really are identical in structure, I think that having an
> apparently different buildtime file is confusing.
>
> Comments?
>
> Mike


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