Hi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Àlex Magaz Graça" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:50 AM Subject: [sisuite-users] SystemImager + LTSP
Hi, Some months ago I was working on integrating SystemImager into LTSP. The idea was to run the installation scripts from an LTSP environment instead of running them from a custom initrd. Why do this? Well, right now, if you want to modify some of this scripts, you have to regenerate the initrd and put it into the right place. As you usually make mistakes you have to repeat the process several times, which is a bit tedious. Things become worse when you need to regenerate the BOEL binaries tar ball, for example to update some of its utilities. It also a pain when something fails in the middle of an installation and you have to find out what happened from a so limited busy box environment. So, what do we get from this? With LTSP we get a chroot of a standard distribution mounted through NFS, which means we can modify any file and install/upgrade any package in a really easy way. This makes it easier to test new functionality and debug problems. With the attached patch I've succeeded doing installations with both rsync and BitTorrent, but there's still a lot of work do. I've not tested multicast and SSH installations, support for all installation parameters is incomplete and some other things don't work as they should. As I don't think I'll be able to work on this anymore, I drop it here in the hope someone finds it useful. Apart from the patch, I've also attached the instructions on how to integrate the SystemImager scripts into the LTSP chroot. Cheers, Àlex -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Alex for your work, Also I will try to test the install with multicast and ssh... also do you have interesting link for LTSP explaining ? Thanks Franck -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
