Re: [K12OSN] Mac Clients to K12LTSP
Terrell Prude', Jr. (microman@cmosnetworks.com)
Fri, 16 May 2003 23:04:59 -0400
Hello Paul,
Head on over to http://www.ltsp.org, and check out the contrib section.
Skip Gaede wrote a howto for doing this with NuBus PMacs, and
conceptually it's the same for iMacs and newer. The difference is that
you won't be using his Mach kernel boot image for the clients, since
iMacs and G4s are PCI-based. However, you will use the same X11
server. You know how there's the /opt/ltsp/i386 directory? Just un-tar
the PMac X11 server into /opt/ltsp/ppc, for example, and tweak all the
"i386" references in the script files to read "ppc". That's how I did
it with my 5260s.
Now, of course, we know where the NuBus boot kernel is, but what about
the one for PCI Macs? Does anyone have one of those? I have not yet
gotten my hands on a PMac that I can use for development, otherwise I'd
have made one myself and posted it. :-(
Be aware of one other thing. I know that G4's have 10/100 NICs, but if
any of those iMacs have 10Mbps cards in 'em, those'll work fine too,
but, like with my ancient 5260's, they'll feel a bit sluggish by comparison.
--TP
Paul D. Eden wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have seen some discusssion of mac clients for the K12LTSP and was
>wondering if anyone has more information than what is on K12os.org
>(there they have an older howto).
>
>We have over 50 iMacs and some PowerMac G4s that were all purchased less
>than two years ago that we would like to centrally manage and run as
>K12LTSP clients and preferably as diskless nodes.
>
>We have lots of redhat experience and love the K12LTSP setup and would
>like to take advantage of it while leveraging our old hardware.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
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