Re: [Thinstation-general] help with local-install.sh
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From: Todd P. <pf...@rh...> - 2022-05-03 03:33:45
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mkrepackage rsync worked perfectly! Thanks, Todd On Tue, 3 May 2022, Don Cupp 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. > > > 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 > > > |