Hi Ernesto, Ltsp exports squashfs image over NBD so you can't mount it readonly. What you have to do is ext3 NBD image and then tweak initrd scripts to mount ext3 instead of squashfs. Unfortunally I don't know the details for ubuntu, but from my experience, initrd scripts are not very easy to tweak. If you don't want to tweak initrd scripts, you can use NFS rw tree just to configure the client, and when you are happy with it, ltsp-update-image would create appropriate NBD root, which can be mounted read only. I have setup diskless workstations with KIWI from opensuse. KIWI is used to create LTSP client root on opensuse. But it enables you to do much more than LTSP. I started with the configuration for LTSP and changed it so it suited my needs. I used unionfs, so I mounted root image readonly over NFS + NFS mounted /home, but a simple change of a line in KIWI config would create rw NBD root. I have 30 workstations with the same hardware in a classroom and I had no problems with NFS so far. If you need details on KIWI, send me an email.
Martin On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Ernesto Freyre G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks James > > actually I cannot have read/write with NBD LTSP images because those are > made with mksquashfs and squashfs is read-only by design. I could have > read/write access to a ext3 image over NBD perfectly. The question is > how to config that, maybe in the /etc/default/ltsp-client-setup file??? > > So, there is now a problem with how to mount such image in a fat > client. > > I now this is getting far from LTSP already. > > Greetings > > Ernesto > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
