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

[Thomas Mueller]

vagrant at freegeek.org schrieb:
> i have experimented with the NBD+squashfs+unionfs in debian sid,
did you use the ltsp-5.0.39debian package?

>  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
>   
don't i have to set root_write_method="unionfs" in
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/default/ltsp-client-setup before next command?
>  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
>   
do i also have to set "nbdroot=<serverip>:<port>" or will it default to
ltsp-server if not set?

> i tried with etch, but i think there may be bugs in the older nbd-client
> that caused it to freeze up.
>   
i'm using SID right know for testing purposes.
>  
>   
>> by browsing ubuntu sources i saw "jetpipe". Is it going to be also in 
>> Debian?
>>     
>
> a python jetpipe implementation is already part of ltsp.
>   
ok, i read the mailinglist(s) - there was some talking about "printing
not working due to licensing issues". then i saw that in the ubuntu
package without checking if it's in debian. sorry...

- Thomas



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