Re: netatalk, ubuntu, and netboot

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

On 9/9/10 6:46 AM, in article
127e61cd-3f46-4642-90e7-1c6eedec5043@k17g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "Geoff
Body" <gbody4@bigpond.com> wrote:

> The user Volume mounted should have the folder /Users where each home
> directory is located.
> Then a folder for each userid
> Then in each users folder should be a folder Setup.
> The login program looks for the atinit file in the setup folder.
> 
> ie
> /Volume/Users/userid/Setup/atinit

Finally, I has success!

This was definitely a big help -- I never actually noticed that this folder
gets made with the actual AppleShare 3 software and that netatalk mimics it.

I only was able to make it work by actually making a user in AppleShare 3,
mounting my A2BOOT folder (now empty), and then copying SYSTEM and USERS
into it. Then, voila, netboot. Before, I was trying to adapt the premade
folder provided by Marsha Jackson; so evidently there's some
ownership/permissions/username/metadata issue in play, which I'll run down
later. It would in fact be nice to have a utility to generate the files and
folders necessary in the correct configuration, or at least understand
precisely what needs to be done to a preexisting archive like Marsha's. But
for now, I'm satisfied.

Thanks for your help! (And yours too, Steven!)


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