Re: [Thinstation-general] help with local-install.sh

[Don C. <don...@ya...>]

After doing a build, try 
bt net or bt net-efi
to test a pxe boot and possibly an install
afterwards,
bt grub or bt grub-efi to test your install






On Monday, May 2, 2022, 05:46:55 PM PDT, Don Cupp via Thinstation-general <thi...@li...> wrote: 





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. 
add
package rsync
to 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.


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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
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