Dear All,
I'm sending this mail in relation to a post on the CentOs 6 forum :
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32545&start=...
CentOs 6 works great so far, and I do not want to sound impatient, but I'm eager to find out when Ltsp would be available on CentOs6 - or even in Rhel6.
We now use Kiwi-Ltsp on OpenSuse and there's a hot debate going on, everyone wants to switch to Ubuntu, I want to switch to CentOs.
So any timeline would be very helpfull in this dogfight.
Thanks for any advise.
greetings, James
On 8/8/2011 8:43 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
Dear All,
I'm sending this mail in relation to a post on the CentOs 6 forum :
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32545&start=...
CentOs 6 works great so far, and I do not want to sound impatient, but I'm eager to find out when Ltsp would be available on CentOs6 - or even in Rhel6.
We now use Kiwi-Ltsp on OpenSuse and there's a hot debate going on, everyone wants to switch to Ubuntu, I want to switch to CentOs.
So any timeline would be very helpfull in this dogfight.
The project is looking for contributors to fund development: https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/2011FundDrive
And even with the basics working, it is going to be a problem that the stock (and client) kernel is PAE-only. I've always considered this an interesting project and particularly liked the k12ltsp distribution up through the CentOS5 based version that you can still find here: ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/ There are a few quirks/conflicts when you update this to 5.6 but it can still be done.
However, after that version it was moved into stock fedora packages for subsequent development and broke due to fedora's fast changing nature. I don't currently use any thin terminals, but if I did I'd probably stick to the k12ltsp5EL version for booting for a while and perhaps try to point the gdm login to a newer host. Or for booting 'fat' clients I'd look at drbl - or there may be a service included in Centos6 that will work. Or ubuntu might be the way to go since I think it still has an i386 kernel, or at least non-PAE.
Hello Les,
thanks for the reply.
I'll just go back to CentOs 5.6 then.
Any chance you could point me to a wiki or guide to get ltsp installed on CentOs 5.6?
greetings, James
Op 08-08-11 17:52, Les Mikesell schreef:
On 8/8/2011 8:43 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
Dear All,I'm sending this mail in relation to a post on the CentOs 6 forum :
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32545&start=...
CentOs 6 works great so far, and I do not want to sound impatient, but I'm eager to find out when Ltsp would be available on CentOs6 - or even in Rhel6.
We now use Kiwi-Ltsp on OpenSuse and there's a hot debate going on, everyone wants to switch to Ubuntu, I want to switch to CentOs.
So any timeline would be very helpfull in this dogfight.
The project is looking for contributors to fund development: https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/2011FundDrive
And even with the basics working, it is going to be a problem that the stock (and client) kernel is PAE-only. I've always considered this an interesting project and particularly liked the k12ltsp distribution up through the CentOS5 based version that you can still find here: ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/ There are a few quirks/conflicts when you update this to 5.6 but it can still be done.
However, after that version it was moved into stock fedora packages for subsequent development and broke due to fedora's fast changing nature. I don't currently use any thin terminals, but if I did I'd probably stick to the k12ltsp5EL version for booting for a while and perhaps try to point the gdm login to a newer host. Or for booting 'fat' clients I'd look at drbl - or there may be a service included in Centos6 that will work. Or ubuntu might be the way to go since I think it still has an i386 kernel, or at least non-PAE.
On 8/9/2011 12:09 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
thanks for the reply.
I'll just go back to CentOs 5.6 then.
Any chance you could point me to a wiki or guide to get ltsp installed on CentOs 5.6?
Per the k12osn mail list, a public beta for the 6.x version is supposed to be close. Watch the status at https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/EL6Status
For 5.x, if you are installing from scratch, I'd still use the respin at ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/ and then do a yum update to current. Or at least do this on a virtual machine with 2 nics to see how it works before trying to duplicate it. There are some scripts that make it work out of the box in the 2-nic configuration (a private net for booting clients and a LAN facing side with nat support for the private net).
Dear All,
following the advise from Les concerning CentOs - ltsp, I'm now trying to set up a *kickstart *server, as I will have to install 14 ltsp servers.
I must admit the number 14 is not my only motivation, in a first attempt I downloaded 7 cd's -and got stuck when installing from nr 6 , and made 2 attempts installing from the dvd.
So no more cd's for me.
I'm following this guide : http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch25_:_Netwo...
and my problem is that I never worked with ftp before, so how could I download all the files that I see under
ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/6.0.0-32bit/i386/
So far I only downloaded stuf if there was a download button around. :-[
Again any advise would be greatly appreciated.
greetings, James
Op 09-08-11 17:16, Les Mikesell schreef:
On 8/9/2011 12:09 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
thanks for the reply.
I'll just go back to CentOs 5.6 then.
Any chance you could point me to a wiki or guide to get ltsp installed on CentOs 5.6?
Per the k12osn mail list, a public beta for the 6.x version is supposed to be close. Watch the status at https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/EL6Status
For 5.x, if you are installing from scratch, I'd still use the respin at ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/ and then do a yum update to current. Or at least do this on a virtual machine with 2 nics to see how it works before trying to duplicate it. There are some scripts that make it work out of the box in the 2-nic configuration (a private net for booting clients and a LAN facing side with nat support for the private net).
On 8/12/11 3:41 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
Dear All,
following the advise from Les concerning CentOs - ltsp, I'm now trying to set up a *kickstart *server, as I will have to install 14 ltsp servers.
I must admit the number 14 is not my only motivation, in a first attempt I downloaded 7 cd's -and got stuck when installing from nr 6 , and made 2 attempts installing from the dvd.
So no more cd's for me.
I'm following this guide : http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch25_:_Netwo...
and my problem is that I never worked with ftp before, so how could I download all the files that I see under
ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/6.0.0-32bit/i386/
So far I only downloaded stuf if there was a download button around. :-[
That's not the one you want - it is an ancient version for fedora 6. The Centos based version has an EL suffix:
ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/iso/
You should be able to click on that link or type it into a browser and click on each iso image to download. The easy way to install from the CD set is to download them all into a directory exported via NFS, burn only the 1st one to boot from, type 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt and do an nfs install giving it the server and directory path to the iso images. The installer knows how to deal with the images without extracting anything from them. You should also be able to kickstart into an nfs install but I'd do one by hand first to get started. And do a 'yum update' on it before you go much farther. There may be some quirks you have to work out to get it up to 5.6.
On 8/12/11 3:41 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
following the advise from Les concerning CentOs - ltsp, I'm now trying to set up a *kickstart *server, as I will have to install 14 ltsp servers.
If you are doing something at that scale you might want to join the k12osn list
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
or at least look through the archives. Some of the users there have a lot of experience with thin client setups - and they are starting a private beta of the 6.x based version that might be worth waiting for if you have another few weeks to get started.
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Johan Vermeulen -
Les Mikesell