Dear Community With the announcement of openSUSE Factory becoming rolling distribution[1], KIWI-LTSP, LTSP implementation on openSUSE using KIWI imaging now goes rolling too.
--Very long email follows.--- Updates below assumes you are familiar with setting up LTSP, if not then see this: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:LTSP_quick_start_12.2_Edu, you basically need to set up network first and run kiwi-ltsp -c. All the other available documentations are here: https://en.opensuse.org/Category:KIWI-LTSP some may now be out dated. So what does using factory mean? apart from getting the very latest and the greatest of open source world: 1. kiwi-ltsp scripts and image description is adapted to build image using openSUSE Factory as a base distribution, unlike before when the latest released openSUSE version was used as a base. 2. New pre-built image packages are now available in both 64 and 32bit flavors http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/openSUSE_Factory/x86_64/ kiwi-image-ltsp-boot64-Factory - 64bit kernel and initrd kiwi-image-ltsp64-Factory - 64bit system image http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/openSUSE_Factory/i586/ kiwi-image-ltsp-boot32-Factory - 32bit kernel and initrd kiwi-image-ltsp32-Factory - 32bit system image Both 32 and 64bit images can be installed together to serve it to clients supporting those archs. 32bit image can be used for 64bit clients as well. On non-factory openSUSE distribution(openSUSE_13.1 for example) install the packages using rpm/zypper after downloading the packages from factory repository, Add openSUSE 13.1 server:ltsp repository as below, DO NOT add factory repository. zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/openSUSE_13.1/server:ltsp.repo zypper in kiwi-ltsp rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/openSUSE_Factory/i586/kiwi-image-ltsp-Factory-15.1.i586.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/openSUSE_Factory/i586/kiwi-image-ltsp-boot-Factory-15.1.i586.rpm 3. As always, we support AOE, NBD and NFS root. Add the fullimagename to the list of available profiles:in /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp as below: LTSP_PROFILES="i386 fatclient kiwi-ltsp-factory-x86_64-Build15.1" To use the prebuilt image with NFS, extract the /srv/kiwi-ltsp/fullimagename.img using unsquashfs and move the resulting squashfs-root to fullimagename-nfs for example: cd /srv/ unsquashfs /srv/kiwi-ltsp/kiwi-ltsp-factory-x86_64-Build15.1.img mv squashfs-root kiwi-ltsp-factory-x86_64-Build15.1-nfs Edit /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp Change IMAGETYPE="NFS" Run kiwi-ltsp -c to apply changes made in /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp, this will create boot menu entries for all available images(profies). 4. To add packages or modify the client image, you have to unsquashfs it first as above. kiwi-ltsp --chroot fullimagename #(that is also profile name) #add repositories zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ factory-oss zypper in any packages you want #update image zypper dup Make sure to keep boot images synchronized with the system image if the kernel has been updated, either by installing latest prebuilt boot image and renaming it to match the system image or creating a new one by running kiwi-ltsp -n profilename. #when done, to come out of chroot exit 5. To create AOE/NBD image out of modified tree run mksquashfs as below: mksquashfs /srv/fullimagename-nfs /srv/kiwi-ltsp/newimagename.img You can then add newimagename to LTSP_PROFILES in /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp and run kiwi-ltsp -c to make it available to clients. 6. FATCLIENT or THINCLIENT? To serve the image to fatclients add LTSP_FATCLIENT=true to /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/root.default/etc/lts.conf 7. If you are updating from earlier distribution then note that dnsmasq replaces tftp and dhcpd, it should be automatically set up, if you do not wish to use dnsmasq and want to continue the existing tftp and dhcp setup export USE_DNSMASQ=no before running kiwi-ltsp script or add it to /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp file. 8. You can run kiwi-ltsp on any other distribution, for example to test it out on your existing LTSP infrastructure without installing openSUSE you can do the following: * install rpm2cpio package * Download both the system and boot image rpms from the links above * Extract the rpms rpm2cpio kiwi-image-ltsp-boot64-Factory-15.1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i -d rpm2cpio kiwi-image-ltsp64-Factory-15.1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -i -d * Copy srv/tftpboot/boot to your tftpboot's folder(/var/lib/tftpboot/ on Ubuntu for example) Add the section like this to your boot menu in pxelinux.cfg/default LABEL kiwi-ltsp-factory-x86_64-Build15.1 kernel boot/linux-kiwi-ltsp-factory-x86_64-Build15.1 append initrd=boot/initrd-kiwi-ltsp-factory-x86_64-Build15.1 AOEROOT=/dev/etherd/e2.1 quiet splash plymouth:force-splash showopts init=/sbin/init-ltsp IPAPPEND 2 If you are running AOE, for NBD, NBDROOT=SERVERIP;NBDEXPORTNAME, or NFSROOT=SERVERIP;/path/to/extracted/squashfs-root, you'd of course have to setup AOE/NBD/NFS accordingly. * Create KIWI/root.default/etc/ssh/ folder in your tftpboot and copy ssh_known_hosts from your existing ltsp image. * Create KIWI/config.default with this content: CONF="/KIWI/root.default/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts;/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts," ALLOW_CMDLINE_OVERWRITE=YES Add UNIONFS_CONFIG=tmpfs,nfs,unionfs to that file if using NFSROOT. You can add more files to CONF line that you would like to copy into the client image at boot time. Have a lot of fun... -J [1] https://news.opensuse.org/2014/07/29/factory-rolling-release/ [2] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:KIWI-LTSP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
