Setting up LTSP using Ubuntu Distro’s (Edubuntu)

LTSP or Linux Terminal Server Project is an application of thin-client network or diskless. In this article we use Edubuntu distro’s.

1. Install Edubuntu Server.

· Install Edubuntu distro’s into your system, “Install to the harddisk”.

· Choose your language configuration.

· Choose your keyboard configuration.

· Wait a moment for hardware detecting and some driver installation.

· Setting up your IP address

o IP Address : 10.252.0.1

o Netmask : 255.255.255.0

o Gateway :

o DNS Server : your.dns.addr or 127.0.0.1 (Loopback IP)

o Host : your.host.domain

· Configure your partition of your harddisk, min free space of harddisk is 3GB.

· Choose your time zone.

· Create new user account.

· Wait a moment for installation.

· If you have network connection to the internet, fill your proxy. But if you not connected to the network or internet let it blank.

· Then, copy all packages to the harddisk, and install root system for LTSP client in /opt/ltsp/i386.

· Reboot your computer.

2. Configure User and Group.

· Choose System | Administration | User and Groups.

· Give an account user and password.

· Choose User Privileges to control user administration. In here you can allow every user to access server for storing file. And disable your “Administer the System”, if you enable this point, user can access to your system to be root.

· If you want to add new user, you can add user in Advanced tab.

3. Bootdisk for client.

· If you have client with ROM Boot card (PXE), so you can test your LTSP system.

· But if you didn’t have ROM boot card, you can use diskette to be your boot disk. You can download ROM boot from http://www.rom-o-matic.net, choose zdisk extension file (ex : eb-6.4.0-rtl8139.zdsk).

· Copy ROM boot file into your diskette using this command.

# dd if=eb-6.4.0-rtl8139.zdsk of=/dev/fd0

4. Testing LTSP Server.

In this section, we think that your DHCP server is already.

· LTSP Client Using Diskette

o Configure your computer BIOS to boot from floppy disk.

o Insert your diskette into your PC.

o When your computer starts, you will get IP address from server.

o After display manager (ltsp display manager) shown, so client-server is connected. And LTSP service is running successfully.

Have a nice try……