Re: [Thinstation-general] VMView Livecd and thin client

[TrevorB <tre...@us...>]

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 13:41 -0500, McCormick, Jude A wrote:
> While booted from an Ubuntu thumb drive, Mount -v returns:
> The internal drive is /dev/sda1 and the thinstation thumb drive is /dev/sdc1 in this case.  
> 
> /dev/sdb1 on /cdrom type vfat
> /dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs
> /dev/sda1 on /media/3284B00C84AFD0A1 type fuseblk

OK, sda1 is probably formatted as an ntfs drive (although likely, I
can't confirm from this info). 

Can you do the same when booted from the Thinstation usb thumb drive?
I'm not sure if it will automagically mount that drive (or where).

The VMView LiveCD is setup to look for thinstation.profile on:
STORAGE_CONFIG1=/mnt/cdrom
STORAGE_CONFIG2=/mnt/floppy
STORAGE_CONFIG3=/mnt/disc/hda/part1
STORAGE_CONFIG4=/mnt/disc/hda/part2
STORAGE_CONFIG5=/mnt/usbdevice/sda1

If it is mounted, but not in one of these locations, we will need to
regenerate the image with the correct mount point.

Just use a TSoM and use the 'Load Files' tab to 'Upload' the
LiveCD.vmview.build file at the beginning and then the
LiveCD.vmview.buildtime file at the Buildtime step (and change the
values to suit your devices).

Note: it may be worth updating the LiveCD.vmview.build after you have
uploaded it to suit your needs (eg. only include the keyboards, video
drivers, nics, etc. that you need). This will speed up boot times.

Good Luck
Trevor B

> /dev/loop1 on /media/casper-rw type ext2
> /dev/sdc1 on /media/pendrive type vfat
> 
> ----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Eriksen [mailto:thi...@gm...] 
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:17 PM
> To: thi...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] VMView Livecd and thin client
> 
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:48 PM, McCormick, Jude A <Jud...@lo...> wrote:
> > Has anyone seen this issue?
> >
> >
> >
> > I have downloaded the LiveCD.vmview.iso 2.2.2f and have successfully 
> > burned it to an USB flash drive.  My goal is to place that same image 
> > on an HP
> > t5740 thin client.  I can boot from the external USB flash drive, but 
> > whenever I burn the image to the internal flash drive it returns the 
> > error "no valid session type".  It is using the exact same 
> > thinstation.conf.user file and syslinux.cfg files.
> 
> This means that TS doesn't recognize the internal flash controller (or it has a non-standard ID) but does with the external and hence doesn't pick thinstation.conf.user with the internal drive. You have to dig into this.
> 
> First stop is to check /mnt for devices with the internal and the external drive mounted an see the difference.
> 
> Mike
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> http://thinstation.org
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