KIWI-LTSP prebuilt images
by cyberorg,
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
To make deployment of LTSP5 on openSUSE even simpler, we now have prebuilt images available that can be deployed by following these three steps:
1. The 1-click (market speak) install of LTSP5 on openSUSE.
If you would like to wget it, look in
http://widehat.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ltsp/ under noarch
folder.
2. Once you have it installed, edit /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp via YaST
sysconfig editor or any text editor, fill in your network details such
as SERVER_IP(must be on the interface connected to internal network
and firewall disabled on it) and dhcp range.
3. Run kiwi-ltsp-setup -c as root to configure all the required services.
Now you should be able to boot up clients. If you have KDE4 installed on the server, try logging into that from the client. On openSUSE 11, you would even be able to run Compiz Fusion if your thin client hardware is capable of running it 
Have a lot of fun!
: jdd, March 26, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
please, in such note, give a two line explanation of what you are speaking about. this seems great, but I have no idea of what is LSTP and shouldn’t have to search google :-))
(this is just an enhancement request, not a bugreport :-))
jdd
: cyberorg, March 26, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
You will not have to search far
http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/category/ltsp/
or http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP
Cheers
-J
: luebby, April 2, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
hi,
server installation is pretty easy!
(my Serverhardware AMD 3500+ / 2GB RAM / 10/100/1000 NIC)
but …..
- booting diskless client is really slow => 2 minutes to grafical login
(my diskless client, a loptpop = laptop celeron 1500 / 512 RAM / realtek 10/100 NIC)
+ starting openoffice => fast
+ Sound => OK
- no local device support
? where can the parameter list for lts.conf be found ?
(there is no PDF dokument in /usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi)
cu luebby
: cyberorg, April 2, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
When you plugin USB stick or cd/dvd, they appear in /tmp/.$USER-ltspfs
Slow booting is an issue I don’t know how to address, there are a lot of things kiwi initrd does, we need to optimize it further.
See http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP “Customizing thin client behaviour” section for lts.conf parameters
kiwi.pdf is probably in the kiwi-doc package.
Thanks for testing
: luebby, April 3, 2008 @ 9:17 am
hello again,
+ slow booting depending on my laptop => other PCs boot much quicker
+ local device support is working in /tmp/.$USER-ltspfs
-no (pdf) manual found on the server (maybe you offer me a separate link for downloading ?!)
at least something strange happed:
after updating the Server (OpenSuSE 10.3) via “opensuse updater” the local sound is gone away => Sound is now playing directly from the Server
cu luebby
: Wolfgang Muees, June 2, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
I am having problems booting the client….
In the console log (ALT-F3), I see:
SERVERTYPE = tftp
SERVER = tftp.
ping -c 1 tftp.
no server found
The IP address of the server is in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf
I am using the prebuild packages for OpenSuse 11.0. (NBD).
How can I debug this issue? It seems around /hooks/postnetwork.sh
Where can I locate these files? How can I stop the automatic reboot every 120s?
: cyberorg, June 3, 2008 @ 4:40 am
Hi Wolfgang
Could you please use kiwi-ltsp-users mailing list? Make sure all the network variables are properly set in /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp and run kiwi-ltsp-setup -c
Cheers
-J
: Wolfgang Muees, June 3, 2008 @ 7:41 pm
OK, have found the source of my trouble… my LTSP server has a hostname “server”. Have filed a bug report.