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

[Eric Harrison]

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 at 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 at 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