Any linux users PLEASE help me!

[w31n3r]

ok, i've been busting my balls on this the past few days and if someone mentions google to me i swear i'll scream. to start, i'm a linux :newbie:

now that we've gotten that out of the way, i've been trying to setup diskless clients over a network, and zeroed in on an open source client OS called thinstation using the "network boot with a NIC w/o a boot ROM using a harddisk" method since the mostly old clients all had hard disks.

everything went just hunky dory, so good in fact that new clients were added, without hard disks, and now i want to setup PXE using syslinux, so machines just have to be plugged in to the network. now this is where i start sucking linux dick. i cannot figure how to setup the gpxelinux.cfg file to accommodate thinstation.nbi (which is the actual boot file). keep getting "no boot file specified" or "corrupted kernel" messages when booting the clients. the server's running windows server 2003 btw.

so is there anybody here with experience with syslinux who can help? i remember there was a guy here on ZP who seemed to be a linux whiz but i can't remember the name. he had a monkey wearing spectacles on his avatar. if you remember his name please post it so i can maybe PM him.

but i'm sure there are many others here who can help me. please guys, i'm stuck with a LOT of new clients and i need to have this POS running by monday.

[El Comandante]

I don't know shit about linux dude... maybe you can Goo.... uh..... nevermind......

consider this a bump!..:paranoid:

[mountain_rage]

I've used Linux on and off, but I can't say I've gone deep enough into its functions to know how to help you run a thin station. But once you do get them running, they are half decent to work on. My school has a thin station set up for about 8 machines, no one ever uses them because they have Linux on them, so I tend to use them instead of the Windows machines when I want to browse the internet.

This was his avtar

I do not remember his name. What about Cpugenius, think that was one of the usual computer experts? Or even Krell, if you can track the guy down.

GOOGLE

[w31n3r]

yeah, thats the guy. don't think he's around though even as a lurker or he'd have showed up. man i wish krell was around.

here's some more info in case someone happens by...my tfptdroot directory has the six thinstation files, and gpxelinux.0, memdisk and menu.c32 from pxelinux. i also have set the pxelinux.cfg folder inside of which is the default file. this is what the latest version of the default file looks like:

DEFAULT menu.c32
TIMEOUT 100
ALLOWOPTIONS 0
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu
LABEL ts
MENU LABEL ^thinstation
kernel memdisk
append initrd=thinstation.nbi
LABEL StandardBoot
MENU LABEL ^Standard Boot
LOCALBOOT 0

bah. the client gets as far as to begin loading thinstation.nbi before it freezes. btw, the whole gig is configured to connect to terminal server. any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: i'm pretty sure the config file is where i'm screwing up, the thinstation mailing lists have been a dud so far :(

[w31n3r]

gaah!

this shit has been screwing me all day. sometimes i wish i wasn't so cheap, both wyse and devon had pretty good packages but i HAD to go el cheapo. anyway, i managed to get thinstation to load so im starting to get somewhere. still have a little(?!) configuring left to do, if i can ever figure those damned linux commands.

[w31n3r]

UPDATE:

ok i finally sorted this out, and in the process learned a few (but not nearly enough) things about linux. if anybody here would ever want to setup thin clients, please feel free to PM me, i'll help as much as i can with my limited knowledge. it's really quite simple once you know how. please disregard the default config file i posted above, it's absolute nonsense (lol, now i know).

@ MR: i just saw the "GOOGLE" wise guy, ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

but at least i can laugh about it now :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing: