Anselm,That was an example only. I meant you install ltsp as usual, compress the /opt/ltsp/i386 tree into a file and make it available to the clients at boot-time, in that example for download from a server via http.
Thanks a lot for the info. I am going to attempt what you have suggested, sounds to me like this is very duable with LTSP. And I am glad to know that. BTW, I tried using the link below and it did not work, can you please resend it?
The reason we do not wish to use NFS primarily is to do with issues like, our current hw design, high availability, security etc. We do not wish for our diskless client to go down if the NFS server dies. Since this is a telco-grade product, we design to eliminate any single points of failure. The diskless engine does have a need to write some state info to a persistent store, but that would be accomplished by the application(s) itself.In my experience NFS really is one of the mayor points of trouble in setting up LTSP. Though you should rethink wether removing that helps much. Having to load an initial image of 70 MB or so would take a quite long time to boot. You would have to rely on an XDMCP server anyway (for graphical stuff).... For further discussion, having an outline of the product you intend to build could be of help.
I have a followon question regarding the std LTSP kernel. Can I use the SLES8 (SuSE linux Enterprise Server 8) kernel if I wanted to as my diskless client kernel? Is the standard LTSP kernel based on a particular distribution?If the SuSE kernel supports initrd, all the hardware etc.... you only need to retag the kernel with mknbi.
Building your own is probably a better idea, as - especially with SuSE - you never know what people put into their kernels. You wouldn't e.g. need SCSI support, Audio, USB, whatever. SuSE used to have their own kernel patch set.......
HTH
Anselm
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