[K12OSN] "Muekow" first hack

[Peter Hartmann]

Keep up the good work!!  The thought of installing local apps with yum
or rpm is REALLY appealiing.

Peter

On 10/18/06, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> Eric Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I'm still working on the "muekow" rough-draft version for FC6. It works
> > right now, but there are too many manual steps that need to be automated
> > (just grunt work, nothing difficult). I had hoped to have it done last
> > weekend, so it should be ready sometime real-soon-now ;-)
> >
> > As for K12LTSP 6.0, the "muekow" packages will not be production-ready.
> > It will use the "classic" LTSP packages by default. The basic
> > infrastructure for "muekow" is already in FC6, so early adopters will be
> > able to test it out and we can polish up to make it the default in FC7.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
>
> My "rough-draft" is now working, more often than not ;-)
>
> By "rough-draft", I mean this is only for development. There is a near
> zero chance that it work right for you, if you do manage to get it
> working, you have an exactly ZERO chance of it being supported.
>
> But, if you want try out something fun...
>
>
> Notes:
>
> * This is built on today's Fedora Development tree, which is pretty
> close to what the final FC6 should look like. Since the development tree
> changes every day, you'll need to pull all of the software from my
> server. I'll set it up to work with stock FC6 discs once FC6 is released
>
> * Only network installs are supported, ISOs do not work right now (the
> download will be several Gigs, you'll need a lot of bandwidth and a
> couple of hours)
>
> * Only the default "ltsp" configuration will work, you need two NICs and
> the first one needs the address of 192.168.0.254/24.
>
> * Only the default configuration will work out of the box
>
> * Only i386 clients work, no Apple support at the moment
>
> * Only PXE booting is supported, etherboot is not supported yet
>
> * A couple of the i386/PXE test terminals I have laying around
> crash-and-burn, don't expect your terminals to actually boot even if
> they are i386 with PXE.
>
> * You'll probably need 128M of ram or more in your terminals
>
> * None of the cool LTSP features, such as removable devices work yet
>
> * No "Education" apps are installed, just the LTSP-specific bits
>
> * A vast assortment of other show-stopping bugs, ugly hacks, and missing
> features
>
> * Don't worry, all of these caveats will be fairly easy to fix ;-)
>
>
>
> If you read this far, here are the install instructions:
>
>
> 1) get the boot image and burn it to a CDR:
>
> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/testing/fedora-devel/images/boot.iso
>
>
> 2) boot your victim server off of this CDR. At the "boot:" prompt, type:
>
>    linux ks=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/testing/devel/ks.cfg
>
>
> 3) Take all of the defaults
>
> 4) After the install is completed, reboot and log in as root (Note: my
> last test install did not automatically switch to the GDM login, it
> booted to a text console and I had to hit "Alt-F7" to get the GDM login)
>
> 5) Open a terminal shell (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
>
> 6) Run these two commands:
>
>    build_ltsp_root /opt/ltsp/i386
>    install-ltsp-kernel
>
> 7) plug in a terminal, turn it on, and cross your fingers
>
>
> -Eric
>
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