I have a working thin client setup using Edubuntu, now trying to set up a fat client system. I will be using LDAP to authenticate but right now the problem is just getting the NFS mounts and client image right.
I'd like to thank Michael Richmann for sharing his work on setting up fat clients! I've experimented using the 030-workstation script you provided, but haven't yet arrived at a workning fat client-solution. Using Richmanns ltsp-plugin/script it is possible to automatically install a full desktop in the client image. You would go on stuffing the image further through a chroot. Is this really a good idea? The image would use up a fair amount of memory on the clients and would be loaded each time, putting a (wasteful?) load on the server. I'd rather like the / of the fat client to be NFS-mounted, the programs running over NFS. As it is now, the whole mounting of unionfs seems unneccessary, indeed it makes it difficult to get the NFS-mounts working while wasting useful memory on the image. I tried booting my test-fat-client without initrd.img and nfsroot in the kernel options but it fails.. probably initrd contains drivers needed to get the system working..? Can anyone give me a push in the right direction with this? / Carl -- "So slay me now! I have little magic left." - Kallak, leader of the royal mystics -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
