Paul Taylor wrote:
Hi all:
this space). However, they would like to modify the 2.4.18 kernel they use so that it can run a tftp server so that they can load some new files onto
Are you sure you mean tftp? I wasn't really sure what I meant at the time but have a better idea now, I
On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 11:52 am, you wrote: think. The network manager is very good with Novel and has been using it for years. Part of the Novel kit is a customised linux distro which is used to deploy ghosted partitions across a network. They use a customised linux distro to partition a new computer with 100MB for the linux distro and xGB for the doze one. They boot into the linux partition and run a customised lilo which sets up the device to contact the Novel server which then dumps a doze ghost onto the machine. They then boot all other machines in the classroom to use this as the master and copy a "working" XP onto all the machines. This all works well but it is dependent on being part of the same network. The school maintains 8 primaries locally so they have to go out and do the process machine by machie with the existing setup. They have no knowledge of linux other than a few commands they use at the bash shell with the customised distro they use with Novel. I assume they would like to have tftp or ftp as part of the distro (they said kernel but now I know they meant distro). That way, they could take all the multitude of patches for xp on a cd with the linuc distro and then reload all the machines on site with the nnew "improved" version of xp. Does that make more sense? As I said, I am working in the background to get ltsp working, with the network manager's support, but I have a full teaching load so it will not be tomorrow.
This is really quite a horrible protocol, and only ever really used for transferring files when netbooting. Also, there is no point modifying the kernel to do this - you can get the userland tftp server as an RPM.
FTP is still better to do this - there are plenty of FTP servers around (don't use wu-ftpd; it's full of security holes; I'm a happy user of vsftpd).
I will try this out, thanks
Dan Paul