[K12OSN] Success with running LTSP from Fedora 15

[Warren Togami Jr.]

On 10/17/2011 7:02 AM, Kent Schumacher wrote:
> I just successfully booted both an Atom based Shuttle XS35 and and an
> old Diskless Workstations LTSP-150 from a Fedora 15 installation.
>
> On first login I received a complaint that Gnome 3 wasn't able to run,
> but when that was dismissed I was left with a reasonably functional
> desktop.
>
> I've tried running Firefox 7.01 and LibreOffice 3.3.3 and they both work
> well. Firefox 7 is noticeably faster than the Firefox 3 I was running
> from Fedora 11 on the same hardware.
>
> The highlights of how to do it are:
>
> 1) Modify /etc/sysconfig/ltspdist to allow install on F15
> 2) ltsp-build-client --release 14
> 3) ltsp-build-client --release 11 --chroot ltsp-f11
>
> It would be good if I didn't need to modify ltspdist. I'll write up
> complete instructions if anyone is interested.
>
> I'm very happy to be able to be running Fedora 15. It's nice to have the
> latest Firefox and LibreOffice.

OK... I'll add this as an option in the next release so folks wont need 
to edit files to install a Fedora 14 client chroot on Fedora 15 or 16 
LTSP server.

Warren