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

[vagrant at freegeek.org]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:42:44AM +0100, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 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?

 5.0.39debian1

> > 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?

no. in 5.0.27debian1 i modified it to autodetect the root_write_method
by default, as is documented in the file itself:

 # /etc/default/ltsp-client-setup

 # bind_mounts or unionfs (leave empty to autodetect)
 # NOTE: if you change this parameter, you must regenerate the initramfs
 # e.g., dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-<version>
 root_write_method=""

> > 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 don't see any reason why you would need to, unless your server or port
are different from the defaults.
 
> >>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...

it was removed for the ltsp packages in etch (0.99debian11) for that
reason. python jetpipe has been in ltsp since 5.0.8debian* (as can be
read from /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/changelog.gz)

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  vagrant