On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:25:05PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 07:30:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > Are there any backports of the latest LTSP stuff available for Debian > > Lenny on an amd64 architecture? > > not yet, although the server-side stuff shouldn't need any changes; you should > be able to use the ltsp-server*, ldm-server and ltspfs packages from squeeze > or > sid. if you're building an i386 chroot, then you can just use the i386 > packages > for the chroot as you would for usual ltsp backports > http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto/Lenny-With-Backports by additionally > specifying the arch: > > ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --foo --bar > > if you're doing something that actually needs an amd64 chroot(fancy fat > clients > with tons of ram?), i'm hoping to get ltsp versions uploaded to backports.org > someday, which may likely include amd64. > Thanks, I'll give it a try. I'm running a 64 bit server w/ i386 clients. I want to get the improved local device support, which I don't think is included in the Lenny packages.
> you could always grab the backported sources yourself and re-build the > packages > from source, too. i'm fairly certain that the current ltsp packages are > trivially backportable, as in they only need to be rebuilt. hmmm... i should > make a server that does that automatically... > If you have some quick instructions on how to do that, I'd appreciate it! I've read up on it, but never did it successfully. I think I got confused by too many conflicting how-to's. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
