Re: [TCLUG:19247] A proposal for Debian...

[Tim Neu <tim@tneu.visi.com>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote:

> Start with stable (or frozen). If there is something that you must have,
> either get the source package from unstable, or compile with
> --prefix=/usr/local/stow (after installing the stow package of course)
> 
> Some time you just have to bite the freaking bullet and do it the
> slackware way. =)
> 
> (BTW...almost have LTSP working on a Debian box chewie! :P)

I do have LTSP working on Debian - with two diskless machines!  (I also
have reiserfs and X11 4.0 going on debian as well!)  If you let me know
how far you've gotten, I may be able to help.

They converted right over with "alien" for me - other than configuring the
files afterward, that was all I had to do.   LTSP is SO cool - but the
configuration and startup scripts could be done better...   (at least the
version I have had lots of hard coded IP addresses in the scripts). 

If I knew more about the "creation" side of the debian package management
system, I'd submit debs for all of the modules...  That could be one way
to make LTSP easier to configure.

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