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Re: [K12OSN] Seeking advice and help combining K12LTSP, OpenMosix and ThinStation to create one large project


You can run DHCP on a non-standard port and use custom etherboot
images. There is a howto somewhere on doing this, I did a quick
Google search but didn't find it. I'm pretty sure it was written
by someone on this list, so hopefully they'll pipe up with the
details.

-Eric

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jon Spriggs wrote:

Chris (and the rest of the list...)

Is there any way to install this cut-down 2.4 kernel on workstations
as I don't have direct control of the network, nor the DHCP/TFTP
server :(

Failing that, is there a boot disk, ISO image or something similar I
can use to retrive said image to the workstation and boot it from
there?

Thanks,

Jon

On Apr 8, 2005 12:22 AM, Chris Thomas <cwt137 yahoo com> wrote:
Hello,

K12LTSP is Fedora based but the terminals don't load
fedora linux. The treminal runs on a totally different
os than the server. They load a special stripped-down
version of linux based on the 2.4 kernel. If you
google arround for LTSP and OpenMosix you will find
tutorials and some special kernals that have OpenMosix
support already compiled in. To be real nice, I will
include one link on the LTSP page:

http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/ltsp-om5r3c.html

I hope this helps.

Chris

--- Jon Spriggs <jon spriggs gmail com> wrote:
Hi all,

Over the past year or so, I've been very interested
in the Thinstation
and K12LTSP projects, and in the last couple of
weeks, the OpenMosix
project has interested me even further...

I know that there were HowTo: documents for
incorporating OpenMosix
into K12LTSP version 3.x, but I know that K12LTSP is
now on version
4.2 - will this make a big difference?

I've noticed that OpenMosix works with the 2.4.26
kernel, but K12LTSP
is based on Fedora Core 3 - which uses a 2.6 based
kernel. I'm not a
kernel hacker (infact, I've only ever had one
successful
kernel-build), so I don't really know how much
difference there is
between a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6 kernel. Would there
be much to gain (or
lose?) from regressing the K12LTSP 2.6 based kernel
to a 2.4 kernel?

I know that for OpenMosix to work correctly, it
needs the same kernel
version between all kernels on the cluster -
therefore, I presume I'd
need to build the same kernel for the Thinstation
project (so chosen
because I may be using both Windows and Linux
terminal servers on my
estate). Is it particularly difficult to build a
kernel with OpenMosix
in for Thinstation? Would it be worth approaching
the Thinstation
developer team about building an OpenMosix based
package? Maybe even
asking them to include the OpenMosix packages into
the Kernels they
distribute.

Essentially, what I'm not looking to do here is
build a new project
from scratch - I'm far too disorganised and lose my
focus a little too
quickly for that, but what I'd like to do is
organise three mutually
compatible projects into one core product which can
be used to help
the educational world teach and learn, and to help
the business world
work smarter with the increased drive towards server
based computing.

I know this work is already done as individual
projects, and K12LTSP
already does some of the work that Thinstation does,
but Thinstation
allows you to have a local filesystem, without being
overly dependent
on DHCP and TFTP servers. Maybe I'm being a little
overly ambitious,
but I think this could be a really great project.

I'd welcome any comments, positive or negative -
especially from
anyone who may have done any work along the same
lines, or who can
suggest alternative projects which may also fall
well into the same
tree?

--
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs

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