[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Re: LTSP-4.2.4 on Debian Etch AMD64 or Ubuntu Edgy AMD64

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:32:56PM -0800, Marvin Pascual wrote:
> > at the moment, cross-architecture support for the packages in debian
> > requires building the chroot environment on a machine of the appropriate
> > architecture and then copying the /opt/ltsp/ARCH directory to your NFS
> > server.
 
> I only have one server and that is an AMD64 machine.  You're saying
> that I have to create a chroot environment inside AMD64 native system
> to host the /opt/ltsp/sparc directory and export it?  Please advice.

you'll need to build /opt/ltsp/sparc on a sparc machine, and then copy
it to /opt/ltsp/sparc to your NFS server.

> > i know olvier gravert has done some work on pre-generating ubuntu
> > tarballs of and ltsp client environment that should simplify the
> > process.
> 
> Is there any documentation for this?  

i suspect what documentation there is in somewhere on launchpad.net, but
i don't know where exactly.  the tarball method would definitely be
easiest, if it's available for sparc.

> Do you have his e-mail address?

oliver is on the pkg-ltsp-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org mailing list, so
i would suggest replying to that list instead of to me.

if you can, please try the ltsp irc channel on irc.freenode.net.

> > but both of these are using ltsp muekow (ltsp 5 pre-releases), not ltsp
> > 4.2.x:
> > 
> > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WebHome?topic=Ltsp5
 
> Ok.  I'll try this.  As I've read the article, it seems that it has
> change the usual way of setting up LTSP.  I've been an LTSP user since
> its version 3.0 and 

yes, it's a bit of a change.

> I'm just wondering how can get the LTSP related binaries for Sparc
> machine so that I can put it on my /opt/ltsp/sparc directory.

your two options again:

build the ltsp chroot on the client architecture (sparc) and copy to the
server

download a tarball from someone who has done that.

good luck!

live well,
  vagrant