On 2015-09-27, Mark Foley wrote: > I would like to experiment with LTSP. Unfortunately, my distro (Slackware) is > not one of those listed on your installation page and the reference to "If > your > favorite distribution is not listed below, you can also package it directly > from > the upstream sources. You can us the packaging instructions as a guideline" > completely lost me. I've not used launchpad.net and have no clue what to do > there.
Unfortunately, there isn't really any Slackware support for any recent (e.g. 10+ years) version of LTSP. While there are a few applications that for the most part simply require compiling and installing (LDM, LTSPFS), the bulk of LTSP is distro-specific. If someone from the Slackware community would like to take on the task of adding Slackware support to LTSP, I'd be happy to spend some time orienting to the steps needed. Be warned that it may be a complicated task... it really depends on your background and how much effort you want to put into it. > Where can I get the current sources? https://code.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ In particular: https://code.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk https://code.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ldm-trunk https://code.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltspfs-trunk The revision control system used is bzr: http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/ If you're more familiar with git, there's a backend that largely works with bzr: https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr The basic process is building a chroot of your distro(the ltsp-build-client includes a bunch of hooks for distros in server/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client), installing the ltsp related packages into it(ltsp-client, ldm, ltspfsd), building an initrd that mounts a read-only filesystem over the network and puts a writeable layer on top of it (e.g. aufs, overlay, overlayfs, etc.) for booting the client... Alternately, you can skip ltsp-build-client and just use ltsp-update-image to build an image from your installed distro: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp live well, vagrant
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