Zack Boarman

• I have been digging through ubuntu, edubuntu and have been finding about the mkinitramfs, mkisofs commands, netbootings, audio, and more. I haved had to reinstall ubuntu 4 times because I really screwed it up. but latly it's been going good. i am trying to get mythtv installed and then i will burn a cd of it. I have been using FASM on Windows 95 and I now have a copy of FASM for linux. I have been working on getting my Intel 537 Modem to work, but no luck, even after i got the driver to couple and load into memeory. there is more to this I think. here is some of my learnings, enjoy!!

My Findings on LTSP, Networking and more.

• As you may already know the LTSP Server doesen't support localmedia or harddrives. I have been digging into the LTSP root directory and config files. In the /dev folder there is no block device for hda or hdc the most common names for the first hard drive and CD-ROM drives. so I did a chroot into the i386 root directory. I will show you all of the instructions to the best

note

the following information may incress the ram requirements along with incressing the /opt/ltsp/i386 folder from 321 MB to about 400 MB it can also defeat some of the things in the other LTSP Documents. youmight want to take a look at the other documents.

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientMemoryUsage ThinClientMemoryUsage] [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTSPFatClients LTSPFatClients]

root@server001:/ chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
root@server001:/ cd /dev 
root@server001:/dev 
root@server001:/dev MAKEDEV hda
/sbin/MAKEDEV warning: can't read /proc/devices
root@server002:/dev MAKEDEV hdc
/sbin/MAKEDEV warning: can't read /proc/devices 
root@server001:/dev apt install nfs-kernel-server

note: installing the nfs-kernel-server really an't needed, but we can use it to export any CD-ROM/USB drives inserted/mounted. Plus the LTSP root is read only, so we are going to need to make a folder or we can use the mnt folder. but i recomend using a ramdisk filesystem and mounting that on /mnt, /media or what ever suites your needs. then we can mount the CD-ROM's and Flash drives in that ramdisk folder. the instructions on doing this is below as if we had just booted a ltsp thin client and swiched over to one of the shells and had poped in a usb drive, note: you need to do a passwd root in the ltsp root to create the root account, and dubbled check that pmount got installed when the client root was being made. the /mnt in the first line can be subsituted but what you put there also need to be used later on in this page.

root@ltsp:/ mount /dev/ram1 /mnt -t ramfs
root@ltsp:/ modprobe usb-storage

at his point plug in the usb drive, messages should be going on the screen. (note: the mounting of usb drives may not occour automaticaly because the drives are in /media/usbdisk more than often, so just change the /mnt to /media)

=== Suggestions/Commets === Feel free to correct any errors or to make suggestions.

I will continue on this later.