On 12/06/12 22:25, Matt Johnson wrote:
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From: Faisal<xashi...@gmail.com>
To: David Groos<djgr...@gmail.com>
Cc: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 22:02
Subject: Re: A small LTSP network setup
Thanks for sharing the link. It looks a pretty straightforward
method and i will give it a go when i get the client machines. One
thing is not very clear to me though with the fat client method.
Does the client still boot off the network with PXE and get the
"full image" loaded from the server or is the OS installed on the
local hard drive first???
The former. That's the beauty. The client downloads the fat image each boot so
it feels the same as a thin client in terms of ease of setup and maintenance
but with the resources of the workstation being utilised. Building the fat
client chroot is pretty trivial - not sure if edubuntu comes with a fat client
image already prepared as I've just built one with plain ubuntu 12.04. I'm
guessing you build a fat client chroot in edubuntu too.
Here's my own notes jotted down last week with no guarantee that any of it is
accurate at all:
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Remove image created at install of ltsp as we want to create super image to use
for fat and/or thin clients
sudo rm -r /opt/ltsp/*
Create a new chroot image that works for fat and thin clients (takes about 30
minutes)
sudo ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --fat-client
Install software into the chroot image (fat client will use all this software,
thin client will use a smaller set of it).
sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
mount -t proc proc /proc
apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
apt-get install hydrogen mypaint audacity vlc tuxmath
Always rebuild the image after altering the chroot (takes a while with the fat
client image)
sudo ltsp-update-image
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Hope that helps.
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Matt
Hi Matt,
Thanks again Matt for sharing your notes. I have a few options on the
table now and i will try and test soon when i receive the HW with my
VMware server.
regards
Faisal
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