Re: [K12OSN] k12osn on mandrake

[Warwick Bruce Chapman <warwick thusa co za>]

Howdy Brooks

I also am a Mandrake supporter, also do some packaging. I have implemented 
LTSP many times over on Mandrake, and would be interested in collaborating 
with you on this project.  I have been writing a Mandrake/LTSP Guide, which 
may come in handy as well.

Just as a note for others, installing LTSP on Mandrake 9.1 is simply a matter 
of following the instructions at [incomplete document]: 
http://www.thusa.co.za/projects/mandrake/ltsp, configure dhcpd as per the LTSP 
docs and then doing the following:

- Install kdm [ # urpmi kdebase-kdm ]
- Change DM in /etc/sysconfig/desktop from KDE (mdk-dm) to KDM (kde-dm) 
[DEKSTOP = KDM]

That's all I needed to do extra to have a working installation.

Warwick Chapman
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Quoting Brook Humphrey <bah webmedic net>:

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> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 04:11 pm, Eric Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I used the "Workstation" install as a template, then made the following
> > changes:
> >
> > 	1) select the "LTSP" and "Education" package groupings, 
unselect "Games"
> 
> OK this is the easy part as it is exceedingly easy to modify the install 
> scripts and add extra package selections. In my own installs I have already 
> ripped out the games anyway. They are not even on the custom iso's I make.
> 
> >
> > 	2) set the firewall defaults to trusting eth0, and permits ssh
> >
> > 	3) set the network defaults on eth1 to dhcp and on eth0 to:
> >
> > 		IP: 192.168.0.254
> > 		Netmask: 255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> Parts 2 and 3 are more or less related and will be more work. More or less it
> 
> would be a matter of setting up the linux box to do a standard connection 
> sharing thing right during install. This will automatically set it up to have
> 
> an external ip and an internal ip with dhcp running. It would also have the 
> added benefit of having a firwall blocking outside access. If that was not 
> wanted then it is easy enough to change those settings.
> 
> >
> > 	4) As the very last step in the install, it executes this script:
> >
> > 		/opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/K12Linux-LTSP-initialize
> > 		
> 
> Thanks this should not be to hard I will need to poke through the mandrake 
> config files and see if they have an easy way to modify the install to allow
> 
> for external scripts to run.  I would imagine this is the case though since 
> the whole installer is written in perl(yuck). I wish it was python like 
> redhats installer. 
> 
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