Re: Linux Thin Clients

[Benjamin Story <bstory@bullets.net>]

I found the problem.  The clue about the /dev/ entries being gone was
correct.  My problem was that I untarred the pxes files as a normal
user and didn't notice the errors from mknod.  I untarred as root and
the initrd's made from that source tree work.  Thank you all for the
hints.


On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:08:49PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on setting up a bootable CD that would turn any machine
> into a linux thin client for RDP, ICA and AS/400.  I've found a cool
> project called PXES that does this using a network boot, but that
> won't work in my environment since we have a highly segmented
> network.  
> 
> I've tried making PXES initrd.img's using the pxesconfig program from
> pxes.sourceforge.net and using ISOLINUX to boot them, but after the
> kernel finishes it's normal messages, it ends with something about not
> being able to open the initial terminal.  
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas for alternative projects or on how to
> troubleshoot that error?  I would use a simple bootable CD and just
> type rdesktop server.blah.com but I don't think the intended users
> would find that as intuitive as just seeing a W2K screen pop up like
> PXES does. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
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