Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-11-02 Thread A.J. Maurin
asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: It is very nice to know how flexibility LTSP/LTSP-PNP can be. No need for heavy server, you can use both thin and fat clients and you can even use local image for fat client if needed. Very good, indeed. Good work Alkis! If you want to hide rolling kernel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-11-01 Thread rkwesk_ltsp
On 2013-10-30 12:45, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: It's also possible to install grub 2.0 locally and have it read the kernel+initrd from inside i386.img, but that's a longer how-to... :) Cheers, Alkis Hi Alki This begs a wiki entry. It also sounds like it makes possible for such a client to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-11-01 Thread asmo . koskinen
It is very nice to know how flexibility LTSP/LTSP-PNP can be. No need for heavy server, you can use both thin and fat clients and you can even use local image for fat client if needed. Very good, indeed. Good work Alkis! If you want to hide rolling kernel messages on the screen, just add these

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-10-31 Thread asmo . koskinen
Then edit pxelinux.cfg/default so that it reads: APPEND ro initrd=ltsp/i386/initrd.img init=/sbin/init-ltsp root=/dev/sda1 rootflags=ro loop=/Boot/LTSP/i386.img I did image for fat client in Epoptes as you told. First I got this: Oct 31 15:21:47 lubuntu-ltsp-pnp dnsmasq-tftp[1075]: sent

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-10-30 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hey Asmo, from epoptes, select the clients and run: sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo mkdir -p /mnt/Boot/LTSP sudo dd if=/dev/nbd0 of=/mnt/Boot/LTSP/i386.img; reboot Then edit pxelinux.cfg/default so that it reads: APPEND ro initrd=ltsp/i386/initrd.img init=/sbin/init-ltsp root=/dev/sda1

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-10-30 Thread asmo . koskinen
Hey Asmo, from epoptes, select the clients and run: sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt sudo mkdir -p /mnt/Boot/LTSP sudo dd if=/dev/nbd0 of=/mnt/Boot/LTSP/i386.img; reboot Then edit pxelinux.cfg/default so that it reads: APPEND ro initrd=ltsp/i386/initrd.img init=/sbin/init-ltsp root=/dev/sda1

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-10-30 Thread A.J. Maurin
Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: Στις 30/10/2013 01:22 πμ, ο/η A.J. Maurin έγραψε: I have a question about LTSP in general. How difficult is it to setup a large residential community with LTSP? Do I need to use a special Ethernet setup, or is 10G fiber fine? Just a hint, for large setups you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-10-30 Thread A.J. Maurin
Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: It's also possible to install grub 2.0 locally and have it read the kernel+initrd from inside i386.img, but that's a longer how-to... :) Well, it's a lot cheaper to install a very small SSD than the full hardware SSD RAID we'd otherwise need. I've played with grub

[Ltsp-discuss] Scalability versus Triviality

2013-10-29 Thread A.J. Maurin
I have a question about LTSP in general. How difficult is it to setup a large residential community with LTSP? Do I need to use a special Ethernet setup, or is 10G fiber fine? I'm wondering if there's anything I should keep in mind when deploying to a large residential community. Background: