Put your drive (back) in the thin client and boot from it.Then fetch the files from the subdirectory build/boot-images/syslinux/boot of you build environment, copy them onto your mounted partition and unmount it.įor a Linux machine now run: syslinux -install /dev/sdb1 where /dev/sdb1 is the device name of your target partition (see above, change if necessary). No: Create a FAT16 or FAT32 type partition on your drive and format it accordingly.
Mkmbrdrv -o /build/boot-images/syslinux -p d:0:boot Will list all block devices attached to the system (e.g. Yes: From inside the chroot environment identify the drive that you want to be bootable. Is your drive physically attached to your development system?.Set param bootimages "syslinux" in nf and rebuild ThinStation.Pro: little setup required (only BIOS/UEFI) reliable boot process scales (works) well for lots of thin clients if you have a stable boot image in placeĬon: tediuous process of writing the boot image to the drive (USB stick, Compact Flash card, SD card, hard disk) – To avoid this use hdupdate. GRUB) it is best to start with SYSLINUX because of its simplicity. Although there are other bootloaders available (e.g. If you plan to boot from either removable media or internal storage devices you will probably be using the same bootloader: SYSLINUX. On the first boot you may have to change your BIOS/UEFI settings accordingly. Now put this CD/DVD into the thin client optical drive and boot from it. Then fetch the ISO image file thinstation.iso from the subdirectory build/boot-images/iso of you build environment and write it onto a CD or a DVD using any available CD/DVD writing application. Set param bootimages "refind-iso systemd-boot-iso iso" in nf and rebuild ThinStation. Pro: little setup required reliable boot processĬon: tedious process of (erasing and) writing an optical medium does not scale (work well) for lots of thin clients (lots of CDs have to be written) How to
Booting from CDĪ very easy way to boot ThinStation is from CD or DVD. No matter which way you deploy ThinStation you can always fetch configuration files through the network.
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