On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:42:29 +0100, David Van Assche wrote > Hi there, > I've recently documented the steps needed to make alternative fat chroots > with local apps and local cpu/memory usage. So called ltsp diskless > workstations, or low fat clients. The wiki is here, and though is not > complete, Ive tested it and it works (I am running it on 20 computers in my > computer lab that require multimedia apps, aswell as flash, java, video, > audio, etc. Take a look here and feel free to add to it or ask me questions: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients > > Kind Regards, > David V.
Very cool David. Thanks for your work in documenting this. I will be likely installing 50 "Low Fat" clients this summer in addition to our existing 108 thin clients (I think the name "Low Fat" by the way is awesome :-). The thin clients will be for students, the low fat clients will be new full power machines for teachers. I am wondering if there is any reason one couldn't install a workstation as normal, tweak things, then copy the workstation directories over to the server into /opt/ltsp/lf_i386? I think this is how it is recommended to build a PPC client tree, so I don't see why this wouldn't work. If this is possible, would anyone care to provide instructions as to the best way to do this? Right now I have 3 teacher machines that are the test pilots for this over the summer. They are identical hardware, and are already completely configured for mounting /home and auth to ldap. The only piece left for them is to get them booting from the server. I would love to simply move the contents from one of these completed machines over. Thanks, Jim ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- Jim Kronebusch Cotter Tech Department 453-5188 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
