Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
IMGzors I got ltsp fat client booted up on debian squeeze! AWESOME!! sorry for being a jackass about it, and thanks for all your help guise! On 03/12/2012 05:25 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:26:05PM -0700, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: > >> well I did this per your suggestion

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
Well this is odd, when try to boot into a fat client, Im dumped to a shell prompt in the top left corner, none of the programs I installed with chroot are available I get no desktop gui, startx wont run, says user is not authorized. And what else is odd, Its got me rooted in my secondary hard di

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
Ok, so its booting up with fat client specified in the lts.conf and I dont get a desktop, but I do get a shell prompt on the top left corner and I can run a few commands, also, only one of my user accounts is working with it, I added a user under chroot, rebooted the client and the account wont l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
SWEET thanks man, its installing 1.6gb of stuff, looks like the whole tamale! whoohoo hey do I need to ltsp-update-image after this stuff installs? or no? I guess Ima find out On 03/12/2012 05:25 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:26:05PM -0700, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: > >>

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:26:05PM -0700, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: > well I did this per your suggestion > > deviant:/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386# sudo ltsp-chroot apt-get install > $desktop_environment_or_window_manager $other_apps You'd need to change that to something like: sudo ltsp-chroot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread christoffer krakou
Benjamin, your error appears because the chroot hasnt been tricked into thinking it's a real computer. You do this, by firing up this little command 'mount -t proc proc /proc' before you try installing anything, but after you've chroot'ed. When you're done installing the packages, fire off this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread asmo . koskinen
> Herp DERP! FAILTACULAR.. OUTSTANDING... >>> cmon guys??? seriously??? Please, be friendly... You can install what ever you want inside chroot. * root@ltsp:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l root@ltsp:~# ps ax | grep lxde 4057 pts/3S+ 0:00 grep lxde * root@lt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread christoffer krakou
Hey benjamin Just a thought, but have you double-checked the /etc/exports file to see if the shares are configured right? I can imagine it needs /home and the /opt/*architecture*/chroot stuff shared, but i'm not sure what others are needed. On 03/12/2012 12:04 AM, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
Well, I cant install anything using chroot. deviant:/opt/ltsp/i386# chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ root@deviant:/# ls bin boot devetc home libmedia mnt opt proc root sbin selinux srv sys tmp usrvar root@deviant:/# apt-get install nfs-client Reading package lists... Done Building

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread christoffer krakou
Hello benjamin Actually, if i recall right, the fat-client option is ubuntu-specific. I think you could do something similar by manually installing the packages in the chroot, enabling loca-apps and doing some trickery to make eveyrthing run local. Try contacting the debian people, perhaps they

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
Ok I got thinclient running, damn iptables was blocking some ports. So, im confident in my capability to setup thinclient now that ive done further testing. So now im working on fat-client, and get this.. ltsp-build-client: unrecognized option '--fat-client' cmon guys??? seriously??? On 0

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
Well its irrelevant anyway since my pxe thin client cannot find the nfs root. Now, the tuts on ltsp say to use a dhcp server as the ltsp server. Well I dont want, nor need to do that since I have a router with pxe or "next server" options in the dhcp server and PXE booting installs works just

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
well I did this per your suggestion deviant:/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386# sudo ltsp-chroot apt-get install $desktop_environment_or_window_manager $other_apps Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 no

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:28:20AM -0800, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: > Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze > > Ive got ltsp setup and booting thin-client just fine, but I heard about > this Fat-Client option > > I have the following in my lts.conf > > [default] > LTSP