[Pkg-ltsp-devel] pkg-ltsp and the Debian Installer^w etch.

[Gustavo Franco]

On 3/10/06, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
>
> [Gustavo Franco]
> > I would like to hear what's the status and what do you think about
> > ltsp in d-i ? There's the udeb i know, but i want to read what and
> > if we're going to integrate it to ship with Etch, hopefully in the
> > end of the year, maybe Otavio can guide us through the necessary
> > changes in ltsp (if any) or just check if it fits in the d-i agenda.
>
> I see the udeb as an option for custom debian distros to enable using
> the udeb_include file on their CD, to install LTSP from d-i.

Yes.

> > My opinion is that any Debian user that installs a "thin client
> > server" in Etch should end with a system able to remotely boot thin
> > clients in a console-only mode. It will be up to the user install
> > whatever window manager he wants to provide the GUI, maybe using the
> > installer or doing that right after the installation. Comments ?
>
> Are you here proposing a new tasksel profile, to run ltsp-build-client
> at the end of the install?  That would be interesting.

Exactly!

> As for GUI to manage ltsp, Oliver has made a draft with his
> ltspmanager, bzr get http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/LTSPManager/bzr/.
>

Oh, i see. Oliver already showed me that tool, but i was commenting about
the window manager choice after installing ltsp (running ltsp-build-client
as you said).

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