Can the Server CD be used to setup clients?

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:16:11 -0800, Don Venardos wrote
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:54:42 -0500
> > From: "Jim Kronebusch" <jim at winonacotter.org>
> > Subject: Re: Can the Server CD be used to setup clients?
> > To: Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org>,edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Message-ID: <20071031125311.M45387 at winonacotter.org>
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> >
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:33:59 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote
> > > I have an old Mac G3 and I do have a powerpc Server CD burned.  Can I
> > > boot from that CD as a "LiveCD" w/o installing and use that for
> > > installing the powerpc chroot on an i386 server platform?  If so, what
> > boot
> > > option should I use?
> > >
> > > Or do I need to boot with the Desktop CD instead?
> > >
> > > The G3 only has 96MB of RAM, btw.
> >
> > I believe this would be possible.   However I would recommend against it.
> >  Your server
> > CD would be setup to create all the stuff necessary to server clients
> > itself, this would
> > work, but you'd want to take the time to clean up the extra stuff.
> >  Probably best if you
> > just download a new Desktop PPC CD and use that.  It may make for less
> > headaches down
> > the road.
> >
> >
> >
> With 96MB of RAM the Desktop PPC CD is not going to work. You are going to
> have to use the Xubuntu PowerPC CD to get a working environment that will
> let you compile the boot environment for an Imac. This and the lack of
> instructions for so doing rules out Edubuntu for many schoools in the U.S.
> You might want to checkout Skolelinux which appears to have a much simpler
> installation process for PPC:
> http://www.skolelinux.no/en/node/9

If you want an LTSP system that runs PPC out of the box, look at k12ltsp.org.  This will
boot certain versions of mac (best is the bondi iMac) without any user modifications. 
K12LTSP however uses LTSP 4.2 (as I'm sure SkoleLinux is using).  While this works fine,
LTSP 4.2 is older and is missing some of the advantages of LTSP 5 (which is what is in
Edubuntu).  If you want the features of LTSP 5, I would recommend following Oliver's
instructions.

Jim

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