[Pkg-ltsp-devel] booting from nbd / jetpipe

[vagrant at freegeek.org]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:44:36PM +0100, Thomas wrote:
> i try to use the nbd-booting seen in ubuntu ltsp 5.0.39. if i compare 
> the source packages i see, that they differ in the NBD things. Will 
> there be nbd booting in debian ltsp in near future?

i have experimented with the NBD+squashfs+unionfs in debian sid, and it
appears to be working after making a few changes:

 chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install unionfs-modules-2.6-486 squashfs-modules-2.6-486

 chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 update-initramfs -u -k all

 rm /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/nbi.img*

 ltsp-update-kernels

 ltsp-update-image

remove "root=/dev/nfs" from
/var/lib/tftpboot/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default

i tried with etch, but i think there may be bugs in the older nbd-client
that caused it to freeze up.
 
> by browsing ubuntu sources i saw "jetpipe". Is it going to be also in 
> Debian?

a python jetpipe implementation is already part of ltsp.

upstream is splitting ltsp several source tarballs: ltsp, ldm2 and
jetpipe (the c rewrite), and so will likely upload those to debian when
upstream releases, or possibly bzr pre-releases if that takes too long.

live well,
  vagrant