On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 20:39 +0530, CyberOrg wrote:
On 9/25/07, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: We are using kiwi for LTSP deployment. Kiwi creates netboot as well as custom image that is mounted via nbd/nfs by the diskless clients.
I guess each diskless client needs a separate image?
No, we are using single squashfs image to boot multiple clients, however it is possible to use one image per client if required.
The image is used just to boot up clients and provide LDM(LTSP Display Manager) which provides Xsession over ssh, so the user is using server's resources including all the softwares installed there.
I will have to investigate this. I currently use thinstation, which seems to have a similar method with a squashfs image. We usually boot the diskless client and run one app all the time. So accessing the server is no issue. Out of curiosity, how small could the image be? On thinstation, with a graphic desktop, our image is < 8 MB. I would love to use suse as the base as I am more familiar with it than with thinstation. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobl: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org