[Sugar-devel] Running sugar through PXE

[David Van Assche]

Hi there,
   I've always been a serious advocate of runing sugar through pxe for a
million reasons..

For a time I was employed for working on the maco managmenet side of
sugar... ie distributing it... pxe... seemed obvious, fast, and incredibly
tested. I am also one of the lead guys workiin on LTSP which turns any old
computer into a thin client runninig the latest distro (ubuntu, fedora, and
debian have done most work in that area) but its amazing stufff... u can
run a thin client as just that, thin, using maybe 30mb ram, or fat 1 gig
pllus... the server takes care of everything from whcih programs are being
run, what machines and who are being monitored and of course the user DB,
allowing a user to login froom anywher and get their desktop,, fat or thin,
or anything in between....

It sounds a bit like profiling and its being used like that a bit, but
there is also sabayon, which is  a real visual profiler which is awsome,
especially during exam times... In any case I've digressed. I wrote an
article which is really aged now on  nubae.com. I'll do an update using
pinguyos as the base distro (as it just rocks almost as miuch as osx, if u
like that kind of thing.)
Anyway, the more recent articles with lots of engineering style writing is
here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose/Server

I was unfortunately unable to bring my monster to life, but fully intend
to, when I have a moment....a


U'll find the sugar crowd oddly fearful of PXE and how much time it can
save, not to mention the tons of broken disks and sticks.... but its a
battle that will be won when proof of concept is shown at various points in
time and space......

kind ragards,
David Van Assche

P.S. If you are game, I would love a co-driver on this... working it alone
is boring, tiring, and somewhat unmotivated...

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Mathieu Jobin <somekool at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am new to sugar. I set it up so i can boot the image through PXE. The
> initial boot phase works. But it fails while trying to mount the root fs.
>
> On the live CD it is set as root=live:LABEL=iso-filename or something
> similar. But the CD is not in the drive. So that points no where.
>
> I tried set it up to root=/dev/null like the Slitaz distro is doing. A
> distro I am also booting through PXE.
>
> I tried setting up to mount a NFS share on the LAN. But root nfs doesn't
> seems supported.
>
> Before getting into rebuilding the Sugar image. I was wondering if there
> is something that could work out of the box?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Sent from my Phone.
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