NOTE: You will need a network connection for this installer to work. Proxy's are Supported (Notes at bottom).
You will also need at least 1gb of ram and 10gb of disk space to install this development environment.
What happened to the tar balls?
Well those were often incompatible with the running distro of the users that downloaded them.
Will they come back?
I hope not. *sigh* Their back.
What will this disc do?
This disc is meant to install the build env along with the dev env into /thinstation. It will install a bootable TS image onto the hard drive and make this workstation a PXE boot server
Do I really need this?
Strictly speaking, no. You can git clone on your favorite distro like this.
git clone --depth 1 git://thinstation.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/thinstation/thinstation
I get a black screen shortly after the disc boots. What's happening?
Either you have an ATI or Intel Video card or you don't have enough memory.
If you have an ATI or Intel Video card, do not choose a resolution, but instead select modeset fb.
What else do I need?
If you want to boot clients from this workstation, you will need to assign a static ip to the mac address of this workstation on your DHCP Server. Then you will need to set the next boot server for your network to that IP and set the boot file to pxelinux.0 on your DHCP server.
How do I build a thinclient?
After the installation has finished and you have rebooted, open an xterm and do the following
cd /thinstation
./setup-chroot
cd /ts/2.5
./build
This will make a thinclient that will boot on VMware workstations.
How do I change the kind of image I want to make?
nano build.conf and thinstation.conf.buildtime.
Is there any more Documentation or Help?
Yes. Check /ts/2.5/conf
and the wiki at
http:/www.thinstation.org
or the general mailing list
https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/thinstation-general
or the developer mailing list
https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/thinstation-developer
or the irc channel
#thinstation on freenode
(PROXY SUPPORT)
The sourceforge.net git repo does not support http or https, only ssh and git. All is not lost however. You can still clone via an https proxy with a little extra configuration. On the proxy server, you will need to allow the ssl 'CONNECT' command for port 9418. As an example, for squid, you would edit the squid.conf and add port 9418 to the list of ssl ports along side 443 and 563.
If you setup a proxy, a couple of files are created in ~/ .wgetrc proxy .gitconfig
These files may contain the plain text of a username and password. You may want to delete them after installation.
