On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:02:50 (CEST), Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > > On So 10 Jul 2011 11:35:41 CEST Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> >> Last friday we've been experimenting with creating thin clients using >> the live-build infrastructure. This is the infrastrucutre that is used >> by both debian live and from oneiric onwards, the ubuntu live cds. This >> worked included backporting relevant packages from oneiric to natty and >> fixing some annoying bugs for getting actual working packages. >> >> Mainly as a self reminder for me, here some test instructions for >> *natty* systems. Feedback (as always) welcome: >> >> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:siretart >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade >> sudo apt-get install live-build x2go-rootfs >> mkdir /tmp/build >> cd /tmp/build >> cp -rv /usr/share/x2go-livefs/auto .
btw, I've fixed the path, it's /usr/share/x2go-rootfs/auto now. >> sudo lb clean >> lb config >> sudo lb build >> >> after this, you should end up with a lubuntu/natty based live cd >> 'binary-hybrid.iso' that has an lxdm configured to autologin the user >> 'user'. Moreover, x2goclient and rdesktop should be available in the >> system. This binary-hybrid.iso is for me less than 500MiB in size and >> AFAIUI (but I didn't test myself) should also worke from an usb stick >> (dd if=binary-hybrid of=/dev/sdX). >> >> hints: /tmp/build is best done on a tmpfs. You'll need around 2gb space >> available there. >> >> Cheers > > Would it make sense to provide the live-cd builder in the > x2gothinclient.git project on code.x2go.org??? If x2go as a project decides to abandon the existing TCE effords in favor of live-build, sure, why not. Otherwise I don't think it makes makes sense to support both. Moreover, for your department thin client, I'm maintaining a copy with additional site-specific customizations. If there is indeed interest, I could see what can/should be merged back. live-build 3 is available in debian wheezy and later. For squeeze someone would have to backport it (and live-boot 3, and live-config 3), or redo the efford with live-build 2 from squeeze. > Others might also be interested in a live-cd image of the X2go Thin Client... In that case I'd recommend to install the .debs from my PPA. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ X2go-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
