LTSP/Quick start

From openSUSE

< LTSP

1 Introduction
2 Step One: Configure Network interface
3 Step Two: Installing required packages
- 3.1 Easy way
- 3.2 Scenic route to install packages(optional)
4 Step Three: Configuring the server
5 Step Four: PXE boot the clients
6 Troubleshooting
7 Further reading

[edit]

Introduction

Welcome to openSUSE KIWI-LTSP quick start page, here you will find information that is meant to get you a working LTSP5 server on openSUSE. This guide is meant for users who would be implementing KIWI-LTSP for the first time with no prior Linux system administration knowledge.

The idea of using "prebuilt" image is that you do not require DVD media for the creation of LTSP images and no manual building of images is required.

[edit]

Step One: Configure Network interface

See Network configuration for LTSP server

[edit]

Step Two: Installing required packages

[edit]

Easy way

Pre-built images for 11.1(Recommended). Requires good internet connection as it will download over 130M.

[edit]

Scenic route to install packages(optional)

If you wish to do an off line installation follow this guide to get an addon iso image and install packages from there.

Note: The iso image might have old version as it is not updated as frequently as packages in the online repository.

[edit]

Step Three: Configuring the server

Follow this link if you wish to use Easy-LTSP GUI to configure the server, otherwise continue below.

	Run the following commands as root to configure everything using pre-built image: kiwi-ltsp-setup -b #to backup current configuration kiwi-ltsp-setup -c

The above command will configure the following services:

DHCP server's /etc/dhcpd.conf
NFS server's /etc/exports (not really required as we are using NBD image)
Configures KIWI configuration in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/config.default
Configures LTSP configuration in /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/lts.conf
Keeps backup of current configuration in /usr/share/kiwi/image/ltsp/suse-<version>/kiwi-backup->date>.tar.bz2

Advanced configuration information can be found here

[edit]

Step Four: PXE boot the clients

Go into the bios of the PC/laptop you wish to use as a thin client, enable onboard LAN bootrom, change boot sequence to boot from LAN first.

Boot up the client, you should now be able to log into the client with the usernames and passwords of the users created on the server. All the packages that are installed on the server would be available in the client session.

[edit]