I've reached a basic level of success in my quest - but not without
lingering problems that I want to avoid in the "production" install. I
installed debian keyring since the lack of that was the first error I
encountered. I then added http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian as the
--mirror option, wheezy as the --dist and kept i386 of course for
--arch. Also following advice from another thread I googled up, I made a
copy of the ltsp-build-client script to my-ltsp-build-client and edited
it to state VENDOR=Debian.
So my commandline for installing the client chroot environment was as
follows:
# ./my-ltsp-build-client --purge-chroot --dist wheezy --mirror
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ --arch i386
and off it went, but then this happened:
I: Configuring gnupg...
I: Configuring apt...
I: Base system installed successfully.
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
Generation complete.
Adding 'diversion of /sbin/start-stop-daemon to
/sbin/start-stop-daemon.real by ltsp-client'
update-alternatives: using /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d.ltsp to provide
/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d (policy-rc.d) in auto mode
Adding 'diversion of /etc/mtab to /etc/mtab.real by ltsp-client'
'/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt/sources.list' ->
'/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/apt/sources.list.old'
/usr/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian/010-manage-mirror: line
24:*add_mirrors: command not found*
error: LTSP client installation ended abnormally
I found discussions by some folks installing ltsp to linux-mint, in
which the "add_mirrors: command not found" error was also encountered.
The advice given by one poster was to comment out the add_mirrors lines
in 010-manage-mirror of the plugins directory. I tried that and it
didn't seem to work. Ltsp-build-client did not progress past the
installation of the base system. Many times I tried variations and the
build failed in the same place. However I went on a tear last night
doing the same sort of thing to the plugins for update mirrors, security
and backports. And by great Torvalds' beard I was able finally to
complete the ltsp client install!
This is the commandline that resulted in a working Debian i386 client
chroot:
# ./my-ltsp-build-client --purge-chroot --mirror
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian --updates-mirror
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian --security-mirror
http://security.debian.org --dist wheezy --arch i386 --late-packages icewm
I then had some to-do with the nbd server and Debian not hitting it off.
But by late morning, I had it switched over to NFS and the ThinkNiC was
actually loading the Debian 3.2. kernel. And I am now able to log on my
example user to his icewm desktop and surf the internet and print
through the ltsp host.
However, I'm sure this is not the right way to do things. Yes, it's
basically running, but there's bound to be something wrong with an
installation created by ugly hacking like this. For one thing there's no
locale set appparently, although I expect setting it via an option to
the ltsp-build-client script would take care of that when I do this for
real on the "production" server. I'm not even sure what my question is -
can the defects of this installation be repaired in place? Or do I need
to start over with a completely different client build commandline and
no hackery to the mirror related plugins?
Thanks.
On 06/25/2014 12:47 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:55:47AM -0400, hazzmat wrote:
I am seeking guidance on how to supply that i586 compatible kernel.
Building the client with the arch-i386 option does not -with these
Ubuntu packages at least- actually build an i386 compatible
client/kernel.
...
The ThinkNiC hardware works plenty well enough for
me to to install Debian 7.5 i386 and Vector Linux 7.0 Light edition.
You could definitely run a Debian i386 LTSP environment from an Ubuntu server,
then.
Other options that may involve more work and troubleshooting include running
the Debian kernel in an Ubuntu LTSP environment, or rebuilding the Ubuntu
kernel to not require cmov/PAE.
live well,
vagrant
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