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| rhorstkoetter | need to share some great stuff | 13:47 |
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| rhorstkoetter | ;) | 13:48 |
| rhorstkoetter | I'm 99% there to pxe-kexec edubuntu ltsp from a totally pxe-incapable pcmcia nic out of a running local ubuntu install | 13:48 |
| rhorstkoetter | alkisg: thanks for your help btw. we haven't even talked about that one in person but I read some irc logs of yours | 13:49 |
| alkisg | rhorstkoetter: btw I'm not sure if it's worth all the trouble, it might be easier to just copy the kernel from the LTSP server TFTP to your laptop... | 13:50 |
| alkisg | Sure, having to update it every now and then can be a bit of a trouble, but it's not that bad | 13:50 |
| alkisg | Considering it works with any NIC then | 13:51 |
| rhorstkoetter | ok, and how would I do that? i.e. how would I start the copied kernel? | 13:51 |
| alkisg | With any boot manager you want, even with the windows ones | 13:51 |
| alkisg | one | 13:51 |
| alkisg | Do you have a windows installation in your laptop? | 13:51 |
| rhorstkoetter | wait a sec. I'd copy the kernel from /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386 to some local storage at the thin client and boot that with e.g. lilo? is that what you mean? | 13:52 |
| alkisg | Yes | 13:52 |
| rhorstkoetter | no windows install | 13:52 |
| alkisg | OK then use grub or syslinux or lilo or whatever else suits you | 13:52 |
| rhorstkoetter | ah, I see. that's something I may try as well | 13:52 |
| rhorstkoetter | great info, thx | 13:53 |
| alkisg | np | 13:53 |
| rhorstkoetter | I have the pxe-kexec thing running with a local ubuntu minimal atm and wanted to experiemnet with slitaz-base as a next step | 13:53 |
| rhorstkoetter | but this sounds cool as well | 13:54 |
| rhorstkoetter | ubuntu min boots at approx 90 secs | 13:54 |
| alkisg | If you have a local ubuntu minimal installation, just copy the kernels from the tftp to /boot, and run update-grub | 13:54 |
| rhorstkoetter | where slitaz would lead to 15 secs verhead with pxe-kexec | 13:54 |
| rhorstkoetter | will try that right now | 13:55 |
| alkisg | You don't need to boot all of it just for a kexec | 13:55 |
| alkisg | You can do that from the initramfs, without even mounting the local disk | 13:55 |
| alkisg | So even with Ubuntu it shouldn't take more than 10 secs | 13:55 |
| rhorstkoetter | wow, you mean pxe-kexec out of initramfs of the local ubuntu install? | 13:56 |
| alkisg | Yes | 13:56 |
| alkisg | Or pass init=your script | 13:56 |
| alkisg | If you don't want to touch your initramfs | 13:56 |
| rhorstkoetter | hehe. do you have some docs for this? I mean how would I tell initramfs to execute pxe-kexec? | 13:57 |
| alkisg | Also, why the pxe- part? You don't need pxe | 13:57 |
| alkisg | No, no docs whatsoever. :) | 13:57 |
| rhorstkoetter | I assumed that answer :) | 13:57 |
| rhorstkoetter | honestly, I need some minutes to get these infos settled + research (I fear) | 13:58 |
| alkisg | If you only need minutes, you're lucky... I need months :D | 13:59 |
| rhorstkoetter | brb | 14:01 |
| stgraber | highvoltage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview#Edubuntu <-- please... | 14:07 |
| highvoltage | stgraber: I added the ltsp-live autologin part, besides that I think it's good | 14:19 |
| stgraber | highvoltage: please remove that part ;) it's not published, it's just stack in bzr | 14:20 |
| highvoltage | ah, ok | 14:20 |
| highvoltage | stgraber: well, it's gone again | 14:22 |
| rhorstkoetter | alkisg: re | 14:35 |
| rhorstkoetter | I also think that I'll need some more time than just minutes | 14:35 |
| rhorstkoetter | although I'm happy what I learned just last week about the ltsp topic | 14:36 |
| rhorstkoetter | and related activities | 14:36 |
| pleia2 | highvoltage: on the CC agenda in ~half hour is meeting with the edubuntu team, are you or anyone around? (I'm not sure if you were formally contacted) | 16:24 |
| pleia2 | mgariepy, stgraber too ^^ | 16:24 |
| pleia2 | and alkisg :) | 16:25 |
| stgraber | pleia2: I hope to be done dealing with a small alpha1 crisis and be out for lunch by that time ;) | 16:26 |
| highvoltage | pleia2: eek, I was vaguely familiar that it was going to happen at some point, but lost track that it's today | 16:26 |
| pleia2 | highvoltage: yeah, sorry for not giving you more warning, or reminders until now :\ | 16:27 |
| pleia2 | we need to get better at that | 16:27 |
| highvoltage | pleia2: ok, no problem. I'm not sure how much I can be around for that either, I'm juggling a few support tickets at work today so I might spontaneously dissapear at any time | 16:28 |
| pleia2 | highvoltage: ok, thanks for trying :) | 16:28 |
| highvoltage | pleia2: would it be possible to do the catchup another time perhaps? | 16:28 |
| highvoltage | or I guess we could try anyway | 16:28 |
| pleia2 | highvoltage: we can probably double up with another team at some point, maybe on the 21st? | 16:29 |
| highvoltage | pleia2: 21st is fine with me, at least | 16:30 |
| highvoltage | stgraber, alkisg, mgariepy: and you? (21st for CC catch-up) | 16:30 |
| pleia2 | 17:00 UTC | 16:31 |
| * alkisg will try, but he's kinda busy :) | 16:31 | |
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