I've just managed to get my old laptop to boot up as an LTSP client via GRUB, some files on the hard disk, and a pcmcia network card. Since it took me quite a while to sort this out, I thought I'd pass on what I did. Apologies in advance to those of you who already understand enough about the system and think this is easy :)
First you need a working server - I installed LTSP4 as per the documentation onto my Dual Opteron machine running SuSE 9.1. I already have some normal thin clients with boot ROMs so I knew my server was working ok. Then I downloaded the wireless ltsp stuff from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ltsp/wireless_ltsp-3.0.5-i386.tgz I made a floppy disk using the floppy.img file dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 (I suppose I could have just mounted the image on the loop device, but I thought the floppy might come in handy for testing.) I then copied the contents of the floppy into a directory called /ltspboot on my hard disk. Then I configured grub with a new menu entry called LTSP as follows: kernel (hd0,1)/ltspboot.vmlinuz init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 BOOTDEV=hda2 initrd (hd0,1)/ltspboot/initrd.img The root partition on my hard drive is /dev/hda2 - if yours differs you will need to change the (hd0,1) stuff accordingly. The machine now boots in 35 seconds from grub menu to kdm login screen - this compares very favourably with over 5 minutes booting SuSE 9.1 locally. Since the server is a dual Opteron machine, and I am the only user, I suspect that I may have the fastest laptop in the world :) Thanks are due as ever to Jim, and to everyone else who has contributed to making LTSP such a fantastic system. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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
