[opensuse-factory] kiwi-ltsp
Hi all I have been trying to get LTSP 5 working on SUSE lately and the very initial test packages are up. Download and install kiwi-desc-ltsp > 0.1.9 from here: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cyberorg/openSUSE_10.2/noarch/ You also require kiwi, kiwi-desc-netboot and kiwi-pxeboot from: http://software.opensuse.org/download/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.2/ Change the installation path (/mnt/iso) to your installation path. Run as root "sh /usr/share/kiwi/image/kwltsp-suse-10.2/setup-ltsp.sh" If everything goes right this script should setup /opt/ltsp/suse, /etc/exports, sshkeys and netboot images. Follow the output on screen. PXE booting the client should get a LTSP Display Manager through which you can log in using any account created on the server. You also require to setup dhcp and a/tftp server. You would need ssh server running, no running X required on the server. The real work of porting all the LTSP 5 scripts to SUSE will start now, for that I require help. Have a lot of fun -J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
I have been trying to get LTSP 5 working on SUSE lately and the very initial test packages are up. This is great news. I have just one 'little' problem. It's based on kiwi, and I could not find a trace, that other arch than x86 would be supported. Did anybody test it on other architectures, like on PowerPC? I'm asking it, as booting there is pretty much different, than on a PC,
Hello, CyberOrg wrote: there is no Xen (yet), bootable CD differs, no pxe-boot, but TFTP, etc. Is there anything a non-programmer could help to get it running on PowerPC? Here is the machine I would like to see openSuSE - LTSP running on: http://www.genesippc.com/openclient.php With some tweaking, it works fine with Ubuntu, but of course, my goal is to get it running with my favorite Linux: openSUSE :-) Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 5/2/07, Peter Czanik <pczanik@fang.fa.gau.hu> wrote:
Hello,
CyberOrg wrote:
I have been trying to get LTSP 5 working on SUSE lately and the very initial test packages are up. This is great news. I have just one 'little' problem. It's based on kiwi, and I could not find a trace, that other arch than x86 would be supported.
I guess all the archs openSUSE supports wil work with kiwi.
Did anybody test it on other architectures, like on PowerPC? I'm asking it, as booting there is pretty much different, than on a PC, there is no Xen (yet), bootable CD differs, no pxe-boot, but TFTP, etc.
KIWI uses tftp to pxeboot. Kiwi is used to create the chroot installation and pxeboot images of SUSE that is used by LTSP clients to boot
Is there anything a non-programmer could help to get it running on PowerPC?
I am a non programmer and I got it running on x86/64 ;) we now need programmers or someone who understands how nbd, ltspfs/d, ltspinfod, and pulseaudio works to take things forward from here. I'll update the TODO on http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP shortly.
Here is the machine I would like to see openSuSE - LTSP running on: http://www.genesippc.com/openclient.php With some tweaking, it works fine with Ubuntu, but of course, my goal is to get it running with my favorite Linux: openSUSE :-)
If ubuntu works, I am sure you will find a way to make SUSE to work too. Cheers -J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hello, CyberOrg wrote:
On 5/2/07, Peter Czanik <pczanik@fang.fa.gau.hu> wrote:
Hello,
CyberOrg wrote:
I have been trying to get LTSP 5 working on SUSE lately and the very initial test packages are up. This is great news. I have just one 'little' problem. It's based on kiwi, and I could not find a trace, that other arch than x86 would be supported.
I guess all the archs openSUSE supports wil work with kiwi. No :-( From the kiwi spec file: ExcludeArch: ia64 ppc64 s390x s390 ppc I guess, becuase kiwi heavily depends on syslinux, and it's a package which is not necessary and this way not available on PPC. There syslinux / grub / etc. is not needed, as one can load a kernel image (vmlinux & initrd combined into one file) from the Open Firmware prompt using a firmware readable partition or TFTP (and I also saw an experimental version booting over HTTP). I spent most of today trying to eliminate syslinux from the kiwi spec file and get it built on PPC, but no luck until now...
Did anybody test it on other architectures, like on PowerPC? I'm asking it, as booting there is pretty much different, than on a PC, there is no Xen (yet), bootable CD differs, no pxe-boot, but TFTP, etc.
KIWI uses tftp to pxeboot. Kiwi is used to create the chroot installation and pxeboot images of SUSE that is used by LTSP clients to boot
On PPC there is now pxeboot (it's an Intel standard ;-) ), but plain TFTP booting of kernel images works fine. BTW: porting to PPC would be easy now: there is no Xen yet (it's still in development), current kernel does not work in qemu, there is no vmWare, so basically netbooting, liveDVD and USB remains. None of these need syslinux, just the creating of a bootable kernel image... Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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