A small LTSP network setup

[Faisal]

On 12/06/12 22:25, Matt Johnson wrote:
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>> From: Faisal<xashiish at gmail.com>
>> To: David Groos<djgroos at gmail.com>
>> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 22:02
>> Subject: Re: A small LTSP network setup
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>> 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???
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> 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.
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> 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/*
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> Create a new chroot image that works for fat and thin clients (takes about 30 minutes)
> sudo ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --fat-client
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> 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
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> 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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