[Pkg-ltsp-devel] LTSP Packages for Sun JavaStation JK (Sparc32)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:23:25PM +0800, GNU Linux wrote:
> I have here a couple of [1]Sun JavaStation JK (Krups) thin clients that
> uses Sparc 32bit processors and I want to make use of them using the
> latest LTSP packages on a Debian Etch AMD64 terminal server.
...snip...
> Is this possible?  If yes, what are the packages I need to install on my
> Debian Etch AMD64 server to support my Sun JavaStation JK thin clients?

see /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/README.Debian, the last section is
"multiple architectures on a single server".

the short answer is: you need to install debian on a sparc32 machine,
install ltsp-server on it, run ltsp-build-client, and copy
/opt/ltsp/sparc from the sparc32 machine to /opt/ltsp/sparc on your
AMD64 machine. then on your AMD64 machine, run ltsp-update-kernels.

i've actually been toying around with the idea of making a
debian-installer udeb that builds /opt/ltsp/ARCH without having to
install it(via a writeable NFS share or something), as debian-installer
provides netboot images for most supported architectures. but this is
not likely to be working soon... :)

live well,
  vagrant