On Monday 22 January 2007 18:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sunday 21 January 2007 05:05, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > wrote: > > > > Is it possible to have a "remote" LTSP terminal? By remote, I mean > > > > really remote, as in another town. > > [SNIP] > > > You could put the whole 'ltsp root' on a flash disk > > We used ebox 2300 at $87 + 256M flash at $19 from the taiwanese > > manufacturer to do just this. So your sexy thin client + ltsp + nx is > > easy! > > Can you elaborate steps needed James? It would be interesting to try this > out.
I didn't quite do this, but nearly, just to make it easier for me <smile>: 1) install ltsp normally 2) tar up the opt/ltsp/1385 directory as new.tar.file 3) boot the ebox2300 (or any target) with knoppix. I used 5.1.1 in text mode 4) fdisk, mkfs.ext2, on the flash 5) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt # mount the flash 6) cd /mnt and untar the new.tar.file 7) mkdir /mnt/boot and /mnt/boot/grub 8) put the bog standard ltsp-vmlinuz and ltsp-initramfs.gz in /mnt/boot 7) make a /mnt/grub/menu.lst to boot the kernel with 0 delay 8) grub-install --root-directory /mnt /dev/hda Voila, it works. I glossed over some details - they are easy and obvious, but if you can't do them then this is may be too hard for you eg tar up /opt/ltsp/i386 on machine1 get the new.tar.file to the knoppix install on the machine2 to untar it. eg the format of menu.lst Cheers James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
