Re: [Ltsp-discuss] installing thin clients with Ubuntu 10.10 or higher

[Jay G. <jay...@gm...>]

The simplest documentation is the Ubuntu wiki. Of course, add your own
content to improve it.

8.04 seems a bit old, I think you may find that users may have
difficulty with the usability.

10.10 x86 is possible on a server that you describe, something with
dual cores/threads is really a necessity. For thin clients, think
about getting systems that are PXE boot capable and have 128MB or more
of RAM.

I've found that failure to boot the image is usually related to DHCP
problems. In fact, I found that on some versions of isc-dhcpd3 on
Debian the thin client would get it's initial boot image fine, but the
DHCP server would ignore the _second_ DHCP request that comes from the
thin clients (from the running Linux, not the PXE BIOS). The 1st DHCP
request sends the path to the boot image, the second request sends the
root filesystem information so that the kernel can load the thin
client's root fs. If the 2nd step fails, the symptoms are that the
thin client gets to the Ubuntu load screen but just hangs there
indefinitely.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:12 AM, m Virgili <vir...@gm...> wrote:
> I am interested in your documentation!!
> thanks very much
> mauro
>
>
> Il giorno 26 dicembre 2011 09:15, P Knight <pdk...@gm...> ha
> scritto:
>
>> I can help you with ubuntu 8.04 and ltsp4.2 which should work well for
>> you.
>> I can mail you my notes if you are intrested.
>> pressing alt-f1 may give you some info while the client boot3
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Abelardo Enrique Pierra Antúnez
>> <api...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> we have some olds pc with 64 ram can we put LTDP ubuntu on them? i've
>>> downloaded file ubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386 is ti correct? where is a
>>> simple documentation about LTDP? thanks mauro
>>> I have a PC with a 80 GB HDD and 2 GB of RAM, I put it as a server
>>> module 10 thin clients, using Ubuntu 10.10 or higher and nbd, is to
>>> use a public library. I collected some information from those in the
>>> network but I can not put the resolution to 1024X768 monitors, 3:4,
>>> customers also failed to boot the image, one can describe the steps,
>>> or any suggestions.
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Cuchito
>>>
>>>
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