Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2005, 16:16 +0100 schrieb David Mummery: > Hi all. > > We'd like to create a Linux CD that can be used to boot a server, which > launches LTSP server in RAM and only issues a Citrix client login screen to > LTSP workstations.
I don't know about any citrix client software, but I guess it's rather trivial to make that run with LTSP - someone knows? Or does the wiki - I didn't look... > If it can't be done directly off a bootable CD, can it be done on a standard > hard disk installation of LTPS on, say, Debian? > > Basically we want to avoid creating local users on the linux box and if it can > boot and run off a CD like Knoppix, so much the better for security! Yes of course. No way to manipulate anything just is optimal security. May I assume you have a citrix server on a windows server machine anyway? Perhaps just using NFS service, DHCP and TFTP from there would be a viable alternative to running a separate PC? > Has anyone done something like this or got any suggestions? If you do not need X (on the server), this is comparatively easy (X on the clients is easy as well, as it just lives in /opt and may be read-only). You will have to modify a regular minimal installed system (e.g. Debian) to remove any logging services etc., and you will have to have /tmp and /var in a ramdisk - the rest of the filesystem can be read-only in a standard debian without too large problems. Of course having swap over NFS is quite stupid when that means swapping to a ramdisk on a server, but that should not be a problem with the citrix client anyway I guess. Perhaps you can have the filesystem root be an ext2 loopmounted from a file on the iso9660 of the cdrom... you'd need an initrd, but why not try this. Else rockridge extensions on the CD could do the trick (permissions, unix long filenames etc). You will need NFS, DHCP and TFTP as services - that probably is it. Of course, the LTSP /opt/ltsp tree as well, but you surely guessed that :-) If you really go that way, be sure to tell the wiki. Feel free to ask if you hang somewhere. Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
