On a Debian 4.0 (Etch) system:
1. If you have a DHCP server already up and running on your network:
apt-get install ltsp-server openssh-server
Otherwise, if you want your LTSP server to function as the DHCP server:
apt-get install ltsp-server-standalone openssh-server
2. Build the LTSP client environment:
ltsp-build-client
If you're installing a different debian distribution than what's on the server, you will need to specify the --dist xxx commandline option. where xxx is your Debian distribution (e.g. lenny, etch). See /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/.
ltsp-build-client will download a complete Debian filesystem into /opt/ltsp/i386 (or specify an alternate location with '--base') and install the ltsp-client and ldm packages (the LTSP Display Manager). Typically, you will need a desktop environment like gnome or xfce, or a window manager such as icewm installed on the server (NOT in the chroot).
The 2 ltsp configuration files inside the client are /etc/lts.conf and /etc/default/ltsp-client-setup. See the examples in /usr/share/doc/ltsp-client*. Also see the Edubuntu wiki http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/customizing-thin-client.html (note: Debian LTSP still uses NFS by default).
If you change the IP data after you have done the initial setup and run ltsp-update-sshkeys on the server.
The files the client will boot are installed on the server into/var/lib/tftpboot.
3. Configure /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf:
See examples in /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/examples/dhcpd.conf or /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf and adapt to your network.
etch is still affected by: http://bugs.debian.org/416868 so you need to add this line if the dhcp server and tftp server are the same:
next-server ip.address.of.server;
lenny also requires the next-server option, but is included in the example dhcpd.conf file.
Restart dhcp3-server:
invoke-rc.d dhcp3-server restart
Alternately, configure /etc/dnsmasq.conf:
See example in /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/examples/dhcpd-dnsmasq and adapt to your network.
Restart dnsmasq:
invoke-rc.d dnsmasq restart
4. Configure /etc/exports:
/opt/ltsp *(ro,no_root_squash,async,no_subtree_check)
5. Start tftpd. By default, tftpd-hpa is started from inetd. you may need to restart inetd after installing tftpd-hpa.
invoke-rc.d openbsd-inetd restart
Alternately, edit /etc/default/tftpd-hpa to have tftpd-hpa start on it's own.
RUN_DAEMON="yes"
and restart tftpd-hpa
invoke-rc.d tftpd-hpa restart
6. Boot a PXE or Etherboot capable machine and enjoy. note that some older versions of etherboot do not support ELF images, and may not work without additional configuration.
CategoryProposedDeletion: Obsolete and unsupported release.