On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Dave Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reposted as the list seems to be experiencing some problems, sorry if
> you've seen this many times.
>
>  I've just tried to move one openSuse 11.0 system over from LTSP-4.2 to
> KIWI-LTSP5 and have one or two niggles.
>
> I used oneclick to install the prebuilt images the clients didn't boot
> because the script was calling linux and initrd and these were named
> with -ltsp added  a simple ln -s sorted that out.

You shouldn't have to do this, after 1-click install if all the
required packges are of matching version, running "kiwi-ltsp-setup -c"
should also fix the boot images names.

You can link pastbin.com of "rpm -qa | grep ltsp" to find analyse
more, but as you have sorted it out already you can carry on with what
works for you.

>
> The most important problems are how to change the screen resolution and
> refresh rate for a client, 60hz is OK for an LCD but totally off for a
> normal monitor and a 21" monitor needs at least 1024x768 if not more.

Use easy-ltsp GUI to set screen resolution, run it as root.

>
> The next thing is to find out how to force Gnome as the default and not
> KDE3.5, as now everyone here has used Suse Gnome so long KDE is a shock.
> Changing the session is not persistent and is confusing if you switch
> from the console to a terminal.
>

On server /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager change DEFAULT_WM="gnome"

or in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf add
LDM_COMMAND=/usr/bin/gnome-session under [default] section.

You may want to bookmark this: http://en.opensuse.org/Category:LTSP

Have a lot of fun...

-J

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