On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:02:50 (CEST), Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Reinhard,
On So 10 Jul 2011 11:35:41 CEST Reinhard Tartler wrote:
Last friday we've been experimenting with creating thin clients using the live-build infrastructure. This is the infrastrucutre that is used by both debian live and from oneiric onwards, the ubuntu live cds. This worked included backporting relevant packages from oneiric to natty and fixing some annoying bugs for getting actual working packages.
Mainly as a self reminder for me, here some test instructions for *natty* systems. Feedback (as always) welcome:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:siretart sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install live-build x2go-rootfs mkdir /tmp/build cd /tmp/build cp -rv /usr/share/x2go-livefs/auto .
btw, I've fixed the path, it's /usr/share/x2go-rootfs/auto now.
sudo lb clean lb config sudo lb build
after this, you should end up with a lubuntu/natty based live cd 'binary-hybrid.iso' that has an lxdm configured to autologin the user 'user'. Moreover, x2goclient and rdesktop should be available in the system. This binary-hybrid.iso is for me less than 500MiB in size and AFAIUI (but I didn't test myself) should also worke from an usb stick (dd if=binary-hybrid of=/dev/sdX).
hints: /tmp/build is best done on a tmpfs. You'll need around 2gb space available there.
Cheers
Would it make sense to provide the live-cd builder in the x2gothinclient.git project on code.x2go.org???
If x2go as a project decides to abandon the existing TCE effords in favor of live-build, sure, why not. Otherwise I don't think it makes makes sense to support both.
Moreover, for your department thin client, I'm maintaining a copy with additional site-specific customizations. If there is indeed interest, I could see what can/should be merged back.
live-build 3 is available in debian wheezy and later. For squeeze someone would have to backport it (and live-boot 3, and live-config 3), or redo the efford with live-build 2 from squeeze.
Others might also be interested in a live-cd image of the X2go Thin Client...
In that case I'd recommend to install the .debs from my PPA.
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