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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
