[K12OSN] Adding k12linux EL to existing centos install

Simon Fondrie-Teitler simonft at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 21:50:09 UTC 2009


Sorry, I meant to say k12ltsp-EL. My question is, if I already have CentOS
installed, can I install K12ltsp-EL over it? Thanks

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler
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On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Peter Scheie <peter at scheie.homedns.org>wrote:

> I don't think K12Linux (which is LTSP 5 on top of Fedora 10 or 11 at this
> point) will run on Centos currently.  Centos 5 is a respin of Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5; I know Warren and some other RH folks were
> working on it at one point, but I think they concluded there were too many
> missing pieces, although I forget the particulars.  RHEL is anticipated to
> arrive sometime in the first half of 2010, with Centos 6 presumably
> following shortly after, although RH has not made  any announcements to such
> a schedule.  These are likely to have proper support for LTSP 5.
>
> So, today your choices are either run K12LTSP-EL which is LTSP 4.2 on
> Centos 5, or K12Linux which is LTSP 5 on Fedora 10 (or there's a beta on
> Fedora 11).  The former is solid, if a bit weak in client sound, and works
> well with lower end client hardware.  The latter is better if you have newer
> client hardware, e.g., sound just works, newer video chipsets just work,
> etc.
>
> Peter
>
> Simon Fondrie-Teitler wrote:
>
>> I have no dvd drive, and no flash drive over 4gb, so I thought I could
>> install Centos and install a package from there. Is this possible? If not,
>> how should I get K12linux EL installed? Thanks.
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