Could someone please give me a document that describes how LTSP 5 works? I'm used to be working with Thinstation (http://www.thinstation.org) but for a number of reasons I'am looking for some other software. The LTSP implementation of Edubuntu seems the way to go, but I have a hard time getting my head around the basics of how LTSP works.
I did already visit some sites and google'd a bit, but I don't seem to find the info I need. This is how I think it works so far: 1) Booting with PXE you get some files from the tftpserver to start your thinclient with. I guess a vmlinux and a initrd. 2) While booting some scripts in the initrd mount / to the i386.img on the server and the rest is loaded from there. But then after your client is booted, does it needs the server it booted from in any way? Yes of course for reading the i386.img file. But for anything else? All the scripts that run while or after booting (for setting up local device support for example) then run locally on the client right? As far as I understand, you then have a completely independent client running except for the fact that your / is mounted to a image somewhere else. But if you would extract the i386.img file to a local disk and adjusted some start-up scripts in the initrd you could (theoretically) boot the same client locally. Right (not that I want this btw, but just making sure I understand correctly)? Right, then the next part which I realy want to understand is how local device support works in LTSP 5. I found this doc (http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev) but as you can see this is for LTSP4.2 and not for LTSP5. Could someone please point me to a doc with this kind of info for LTSP5? My goal with LTSP is to build a rdesktop or Citrix client with local device support (including printers). And since the needed rdesktop scripts are already put in by Edubuntu, I will start with getting rdesktop working. Many thanks! And sorry for the long post :) Sander -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
