edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 6

[Bill Moseley]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:00:32PM -0800, Don Venardos wrote:
> Bill,
>    Stick them in the corner and when I get around to setting my iMacs
> up I will post the instructions to the list. It is not that it is
> hard, it is just that the documentation is strung out in pieces all
> over the internet. The iMac is a good PC, a lot more reliable than a
> no-name i386, and almost completely silent, it is a shame to waste
> them.

Thanks Don.  Not sure I have that many corners.

The problem was on the iMac G3 96MB I could not get a Live CD running to do
the ltsp-build-client.  I remembered I had a G4 1GB machine under the
house so tried booting that with the powerpc Desktop CD.  That failed
soon after the boot prompt (before ever seeing a splash screen).

But the powerpc Server CD does boot.  I threw in an old IBM Death Star
(noisy!) drive into the G4 and I'm now installing the server.

So I'll end up with a G4 LTSP server.  I'm wondering if I can just
then copy the /opt/ltsp/powerpc chroot over to my i386 LTSP server or
if I have to still go through the process described here:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPCrossArchSetup

which is basically mounting /opt/ltsp from the i386 server and running
ltsp-build-client.  My guess is I can just copy /opt/ltsp/powerpc.

I think it's under-documented how much beer this projects requires.



-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org