DRBL and Technology

[Todd O'Bryan]

What if the thin clients are i386 and the fat clients are amd64?

Also, I guess I'm not understanding something about how the chroot
works. Do I not install the packages I want to run locally in the
chroot for the fat clients? If so, does the fat client "just know" to
download the binary the first time something is run so that it runs on
the local machine instead of the server?

Todd

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
<jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Todd
>
> On 10-11-15 06:22 AM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>> I hadn't realized how nice the support for fat clients was in LTSP
>> until I looked at the docs. Especially in a mixed thin/fat environment
>> (where you're buying machines to replace thin clients over time), it
>> seems like this might be the way to go. The one thing I didn't see
>> right off was how to tell each client, based on MAC address I assume,
>> which image to load--either thin or fat. I assume you do that in the
>> lts.conf file.
>
> Yep, you would use the same image for thin and fat client machines. On
> LTSP, LDM is also used for local logons when using diskless fat clients,
> so if you want a machine to be a thin client instead of a fat client,
> all you need in lts.conf is something like this:
>
> [08:00:27:a6:99:99]
>  LTSP_FATCLIENT=false
>
> -Jonathan
>
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