Ubiquity should support creating & install LTSP server
For the LTSP use case, another possible workaround for post-12.10 releases:
* In the last stages of installation, copy the whole /target system to
/target/
* Chroot to /target/
* Run /target/
account that was created, regenerate dbus machine id etc,
* Install ltsp-server to /target,
* And run /target/
/target/
/target/
This changes the default LTSP chroot to one that supports fat+thin
clients (instead of only thins), but with the current trends that
require 3d acceleration on desktops, that's probably a good thing.
And it only requires minimal network connectivity to generate the
chroot, or a couple of MB of packages in the installation media
(ltsp-server, ltsp-client, ldm).
.... apart from you want 64bit server & 32bit chroots for clients so this won't work for ubuntu desktop cd as pointed out by stgraber, but does work on edubuntu CDs.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Steve Langasek
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Stéphane Graber
- Definition:
- Discussion
- Series goal:
- Accepted for raring
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
@stgraber: should this blueprint be moved to -edubuntu- namespace? You did demo some edubuntu/ubiquity work at the UDS...
Well, no, it shouldn't be moved to -edubuntu- because Edubuntu already has LTSP support in ubiquity where we ship an extra 400MB compressed i386 chroot on our DVD image and currently has no plan to change this implementation.
