Re: [Thinstation-general] help with local-install.sh
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From: Don C. <don...@ya...> - 2022-05-03 00:46:26
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Your gonna hate this, but I’m just gonna say it’s trivial to make a package. At least for me. First step, just repackage rsync like this,mkrepackage rsync. addpackage rsyncto build.conf, do a build and maybe you have everything you want. Making a UEFI bootable drive is also fairly trivial. You can use the rufus utility and the grub iso from a build, or just copy the output to a fat32 partitioned thumb drive. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, May 2, 2022, 5:36 PM, Todd Pfaff <pf...@rh...> wrote: Ugh is right. I've been saying ugh a lot in recent weeks as I've been exploring the wonders and pitfalls of thinstation. ugh, yuck, ooh, that's kinda nice, you know, things like that. I'd already found hdupdate and this wiki page: https://github.com/Thinstation/thinstation/wiki/Using-the-hdupdate-package but I was hoping there was a documented procedure for getting a ThinStation client from a pxe-booted state to an hdupdate-ready state. No such thing was found I'm afraid. This is the process I'm trying to follow: - pxe boot device with ThinStation 6.2, - ssh to device, - do install to local media, - reboot device from local media, - future updates via hdupdate or something similar. I expect that I can fumble my way through this eventually, I was just hoping that someone had done this already and was willing to share their procedure. Or that it was documented somewhere. I've made some progress. I have a pxe-booted TS6.2 client running (built with --allmodules which is not ideal but see the other question I posted recently about not seeing USB storage without --allmodules). I can ssh and scp to this pxe-booted client. I have a local USB device partitioned, filesystems created, root filesystem mounted, I've used scp to copy syslinux/{boot,EFI} to the USB media, and I can now boot TS6.2 from the USB device. Yay, progress. The only reason I even need to do a local installation on some of our TS clients is that they will be in network locations where we don't yet have a readily available DHCP server, or a DHCP server for which we can set options for TFTP booting (don't ask - moronic enterprise IT stonewall - ugh, again). Is there an rsync package for TS6.2? Don, should I be asking some of these questions on the developers list instead of the users list? Thanks, Todd_______________________________________________ Thinstation-general mailing list Thi...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thinstation-general |