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[Jpd <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 28 Jul 2008, at 11:11, CyberOrg <cyberorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Lars Vogdt <lrupp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > There is hardly anything to it:
> > >
> > > 1. 1-click installation of kiwi-ltsp-prebuilt (First 1-click link
> > > that says Recommended)
> > > 2. Change /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp according to your network setup
> > > 3. Run kiwi-ltsp-setup -c
> >
> > Sorry, this is wrong. Otherwise: please tell me how people should  
> > add a
> > local Firefox to the image using just the steps you described  
> > above. Or
> > add some special kernel-module to the client image.
>
> The instructions above would be wrong if they do not work even after
> following all the procedure correctly.
>
> Idea of "prebuilt image" is that no rebuilding is required.  Doing
> anything else requires bit more advanced knowledge.

Which is why I was asking for some docs on it

> Running local application is not supported yet, so firefox installed
> in ltsp image is not going to work.

Well that just killed my plans for using kiwi-ltsp

Any idea if/when it will? Otherwise it's of to ubuntu

> To add kernel module the instructions are here:
> http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP and in
> /usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi/kiwi.pdf from kiwi-doc package.

Any idea if the yast gui for making kiwi images is going to include  
ltsp?


> Adding kernel module in initrd is slightly more tricky, the package
> has to be added to the respective boot image description.
>
> /usr/share/kiwi/image/*boot/suse-<version>/config.xml
>
> md5sum has to be modified if anything is changed in boot image
>
> /usr/share/kiwi/image/*boot/suse-<version>/.checksum.md5
>
> However users are not supposed to add anything to the boot images, in
> case someone requires a special module we have to get it incorporated
> in KIWI upstream.

So a nice one size it's all then, does that mean that the prebuilt  
image rpm is going to get huge?

> Cheers
>
> -J
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