[X2go-Dev] x2go live-build based livesystems

[Moritz Struebe]

While I think this is a cool solution for private or trusted usage, I do
see two issues for enterprise usage due to aufs:

1) Minor: It might happen, that some log-file runs crazy and fills the
ram. In this case a reboot will solve the issue. This might be unwanted,
though.

2) Installing any kind of software is much easier, as more directories
are writeable then with the tmpfs-solution. Once someone does become
root (already having an anonymous login) the world is open... :)


Morty



On 2011-07-10 11:35, 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 .
> 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
>


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