I just used the 32 bit Karmic alternate install disc on a dell optiplex gx240 P4 and the ltsp install option worked fine out of the box. I did have the same problem as you when using Jaunty though. -joe
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM, john <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You're completely right. In my opinion it would be more intuitive to > > have it as an option in the installer, but for technical reasons that > > haven't been completely possible. There's a chance that we might be > > shipping a pre-built LTSP chroot on the disc so that we don't need the > > alternate install anymore (will almost half the DVD size) and it will > > also allow for a live LTSP session. I speak under correction, but I > > think a pre-built ltsp image may also make it much simpler to install it > > using an option in the Ubuntu installer, so hopefully we'll be able to > > implement all of this for the next release :) > > > > On a related note. The build-ltsp-chroot step ALWAYS fails on my > servers. This has happened since 7.x and onward. On different servers > from different vendors. > > This issue seems to be that I have multiple nics in the machine and > the installer doesn't know/doesn't want to arbitrarily assign my nics. > The fix for me is to delete and rebuild the chroot after install. I > would guess this problem has cropped up for many new users, and > resulted in many "ltsp doesn't work for me" complaints. > > cheers, > > John > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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