[K12OSN] PowerPC iMacs as LTSP thin clients

Wed Dec 17 06:36:30 UTC 2008

>> EL5 ppc is well supported, but far fewer people use it as a desktop thus it
>> is not likely to be a better platform for PPC clients.  Fedora's kernel
>> and/or yaboot needs fixes for netboot apparently.
>>     
>
> You might want to look at the EL5-based K12LTSP distribution since it
> embodies a lot of the work required to boot PPC clients from the quite
> capable and proven K12LTSPel5.
>
>   

I've done it with both EL4 and EL5.  Matter of fact, I've had x86, PPC, 
and even UltraSPARC boxes running as thin clients...from the same 
K12LTSP server...simultaneously.  :-)

Basically, I had to build a custom /etc/dhcpd.conf for it and copy 
/opt/ltsp/ppc and /opt/ltsp/sparc over.  That, and make an /etc/hosts 
file that would accommodate it.  But it really was not very hard.

--TP
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