With so much help from Vagrant Cascadian and his improved version of ltsp 5.5.2-1 in Debian Testing
f.y.i. the command ltsp-info yields server information: No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie) Release: testing Codename: jessie server packages: ii ldm 2:2.2.14-1 ii ldm-server 2:2.2.14-1 un ldm-themes <none> un ltsp-client <none> ii ltsp-client-core 5.5.2-1 ii ltsp-docs 1.1-1 ii ltsp-server 5.5.2-1 un ltsp-utils <none> ii ltspfs 1.4-1 ii ltspfsd 1.4-1 ii ltspfsd-core 1.4-1 packages in chroot: /opt/ltsp/i386 ii ldm 2:2.2.11-2 ii ldm-themes 12.07.1 ii ltsp-client 5.4.2-6+deb7u1 ii ltsp-client-core 5.4.2-6+deb7u1 ii ltspfsd 1.1-2 ii ltspfsd-core 1.1-2 found: /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf found image: /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img Now my old client boots without resorting to putting XSERVER=VESA in lts.conf !!! These are the steps of installing: 1 install dnsmasq ltsp-server-standalone lxde (don't put ltsp-client on the server) 2 add loop to /etc/modules and reboot the server (reported at https://bugs.debian.org/756990) 3 ltsp-config dnsmasq 4 edit /etc/dnsmasq.d/ltsp-server-dnsmasq.conf to comment out dhcp range line leaving dhcp proxy if the server has just one nic or edit (if needed) the dhcp range line to suit the subnet with clients 5 edit /etc/dnsmasq.d/ltsp-server-dnsmasq.conf to replace all instances of amd64 with i386 6 service dnsmasq restart 7 edit etc/ltsp/ltsp-server.conf to have ARCH="i386" and DIST="wheezy" 8 edit /etc/ltsp/ltsp-build-client.conf to have ARCH="i386" and DIST="wheezy" 9 aptitude update && aptitude -y full-upgrade && aptitude clean 10 rm -Rf /opt/ltsp/i386/ (if it exists) 11 ltsp-build-client (without parameters) note that next step edits file in chroot, not in server's /etc/ 12 edit /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ltsp/update-kernels.conf to have BOOT_METHODS=NBD, ARCH="i386" and add the line IPAPPEND=3 13 ltsp-chroot --arch i386 /usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels 14 ltsp-chroot --arch i386 dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-4-486 This reports run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ltsp-update-kernels 3.2.0-4-486 /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-486 (i.e. putting pxelinux.0 and pxelinux.cfg and the latest kernel into /var/lib/tftboot/ltsp/i386/ ) 15 ltsp-update-image (also without parameters) This reports Updating /var/lib/tftpboot directories for chroot: i386 16 ltsp-config nbd-server 17 service nbd-server restart If anyone wishes please update the ltsp wiki with this. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
