On Friday 31 October 2008 23:53:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
> About Swap, when using a fat client setup, when the user opens several
> applications (OpenOffice, Terminal Server Client, Thunderbird, Firefox,
> et al) all those process are executing in the client's memory, so
> without swap when you open an application and there is no memory
> available the system kills other process causing the PC to freeze
> sometimes. I have actually upgrade their RAMs to 512Mb with 256Mb swap
> over nbd.
>
> To install software the approach you take is good, I do it all the time
> but my concern is about compiling and ALSA package, which I don't know
> if will work the same in a chroot env than in a actually running client.
>
> That's why I need Read Write access over NBD.

Ernesto

you are doing really great things, but in your hurry it seems you may have 
missed a few basics:
You can't have RW NBD images.
Why do you want fat clients.
For FAT clients with nbd you'd look at unionfs [what that does is this]

  R
  O
  F
  I      ----> Write (say) the I. This is mirrored as RAM
  L             Now all the FS is RO except the I which is RAM
  E
  S
  Y
  S

But this is not LTSP. In your situation I actually don't know what I'd do.
Explore what knoppix does, and knoppix may be a good fit for what you are 
trying to achieve. The are articles about knoppix on flash-mem sticks that 
will help you do what you want (ie to build something like NBD knoppix)
James

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