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On 04/24/2012 01:05 PM, Gymhaan Rechenzentrum wrote:
> Hello Alkis, hello others, my name is Roland, I am German and I am
> the computing teacher and system admin at our school in Haan (near
> Düsseldorf) I used to use ltsp in our ubuntu school system since
> 2008, but now I found your ltsp-pnp for 12.04 which is absolutely
> great !!! Thanks a lot for that!
>
> I just installed it at our school in this very minute. We have 60
> clients and 1000 accounts!
>
> Almost everthing works out of the box as you said, but just
> almost.
>
> We have some machines with a motherboard-vga (dell optiplex 740).
> These pcs die when loading an image to ram. This is a known bug and
> to prevent them from using their full ram I used to add mem=1G to
> the default file in pxelinux.cfg.
>
> On the other hand there are smaller machines which die if they
> recieve this mem=1G option.
>
> I uses to get around this by using more then one files in
> pxelinux.conf.
>
> I could do the same again, but I want to stick to your conventions
> an this is to use /etc/ltsp for configurations.
>
> Is there a chance to have multiple boot options for different sets
> of machines somewhere in /etc/ltsp?
>
> Second is that I want to use unity as default desktop but it has
> to be ubuntu 2D. When I select this everytime at the ldm it works
> fine, but how can I set this to default (which now is ubuntu
> (without 2D), and that does not work at all on my clients)
We actually only found this bug recently and it's being tracked, so
hopefully the fallback mechanism for Ubuntu should be fixed soon to
fallback to Ubuntu 2D in such case.
You can set the following key in your lts.conf to force Ubuntu 2D:
LDM_SESSION="gnome-session --session=ubuntu-2d"
> Last (for now) ist that I plugged as many ram as I could find into
> my old machines leading to the fact that all clients have 500+MB.
> But some of them are really slow and I have a powerfull
> ltsp-server. Can I change the limit up to which the clients behave
> as thinclients rather than fatclients? Or again can I define sets
> of machines that work as thinclients even if they have plenty of
> ram?
>
> I am willing to help as much as I can and I will report on any
> strange things happening or solutions (even workarounds) that I
> found. I think your simple ltsp-pnp is the key for a lot of schools
> to switch to linux. In my town there are 3 other schools waiting
> for ltsp to become easy enough to get used by "non-freaks". I
> think, ltsp-pnp will save my day on my mission to convince them of
> open-source!
>
> Greetings Roland
>
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