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Offline cfcctech

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PXE TC with VMWare View Client and Dell KBox
« on: May 12, 2014, 10:22:25 AM »
I'm stuck on a problem, and hoping you guys can help me out. 

Our setup:

1) PXE server Dell KACE  (only allows ISO files for PXE boot)
2) TFTP server - Accessible via command line, GET allowed, PUT restricted.  All packages can successfully be pulled down to local machine.

All .tcz packages came from http://repurpose.vmwarecloud.at/


What we have tried:

The machine boots off of CD with these same files just fine, and everything works.
We combined the three original lst files in one; tce.lst
We followed the Wiki on setting up TFTP, and here is our isolinux.cfg:

display boot.msg
default tc

label tc
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz
   append initrd=/boot/core.gz nozswap tftplist=172.18.0.22:/tce.lst bkg=win7bg2011.jpg vga=794 xvesa=1280x1024x16 quiet maxcpus=1

implicit 0
prompt 1
timeout 5
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
F4 f4


Our tce.lst:
ncurses-common.tcz
ncurses.tcz
flwm_topside.tcz
bash.tcz
pixman.tcz
expat2.tcz
Xorg-7.6-lib.tcz
Xlibs.tcz
Xprogs.tcz
Xvesa.tcz
libffi.tcz
glib2.tcz
libssl-0.9.8.tcz
libxml2.tcz
libxcb.tcz
libxcb-util.tcz
pango.tcz
libffi.tcz
atk.tcz
fontconfig.tcz
cairo.tcz
libusb.tcz
pcsc-lite.tcz
graphics-libs-1.tcz
gdk-pixbuf2.tcz
shared-mime-info.tcz
gtk2.tcz
ttf-bitstream-vera.tcz
libglade.tcz
libstartup-notification.tcz
openbox.tcz
hicolor-icon-theme.tcz
dbus-glib.tcz
libnotify.tcz
zenity.tcz
rdesktop.tcz
fltk-1.10.tcz
wbar.tcz
vmware-view-client-1.5.tcz
kmaps.tcz


One interesting thing about this tce.lst (for me at least) is that we can see all of the .tcz packages loading at boot, except for the last one, no matter what it is.  We tried moving the vmware-view-vlient-1.5.tcz line up above kmaps.tcz and now kmaps doesn't show that it was succesfully loaded.

The end result is that we don't get the GUI, just a blinking cursor.  I know this is a common problem, but a couple of us have looked over this and we aren't seeing where we messed up.


Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Offline Misalf

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Re: PXE TC with VMWare View Client and Dell KBox
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2014, 10:42:02 AM »
Make sure you have an additional empty line at the end of the ".lst".
Download a copy and keep it handy: Core book ;)

Offline cfcctech

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Re: PXE TC with VMWare View Client and Dell KBox
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2014, 07:46:12 AM »
Thanks for the reply! Simple mistake, and your recommendation seems to have fixed it.

Offline Misalf

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Re: PXE TC with VMWare View Client and Dell KBox
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2014, 10:16:59 AM »
Great. (:
Download a copy and keep it handy: Core book ;)